2023 Most Popular Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications in the Southeast Region

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In 2020-2021, 1,027 people earned their degree in business/corporate communications, making the major the 439th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 11 business/corporate communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Business Communications Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in business/corporate communications. To top this list, a school must have a successful business/corporate communications program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Business Communications Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Business Communications Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 4 Most Popular Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications in the Southeast Region

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Christian Brothers University
Memphis, Tennessee

$53,446 Average Early-Career Earnings

$31,694 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Christian Brothers University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Business Communications Major in the Southeast Region. Memphis, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s business communications degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

Full Christian Brothers University Business/Corporate Communications Report

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Saint Leo University
Saint Leo, Florida

$41,564 Average Early-Career Earnings

$32,231 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Leo University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Business Communications Major in the Southeast Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Saint Leo, Florida, and it awarded 5 ’s business communications degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Business/Corporate Communications at St. Leo University

3

Amridge University
Montgomery, Alabama

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Amridge University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Business Communications Major in the Southeast Region list. Amridge University is located in Montgomery, Alabama and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 ’s business communications degrees to qualified students.

Full Amridge University Business/Corporate Communications Report

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Harding University
Searcy, Arkansas

$49,585 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,829 Average Student Debt

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Business Communications Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Harding University landed the #3 spot on the list. Searcy, Arkansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s business communications degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Business/Corporate Communications at Harding University

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

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