2022 Best Value Business Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Business Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,029 people earned their degree in business/corporate communications, making the major the 240th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, business/corporate communications graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $37,176 and had an average of $25,350 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 52 business/corporate communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,400 and $25,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 52 business/corporate communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Business Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in business/corporate communications. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality business/corporate communications programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the business/corporate communications program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The business communications school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Business Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region”.

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Best Value Business Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree business communications students.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications in the Southwest Region

#1

University of Houston

Houston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$12,838 Average Net Price

$47,930 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Business Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. University of Houston is a large school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 42 bachelors’s business communications degrees in 2019-2020.

UH not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Business/Corporate Communications Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend University of Houston is $12,838 for southwest region bachelor’s degree business communications students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read more about Business/Corporate Communications at University of Houston

#2

Stephen F Austin State University

Nacogdoches, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$13,723 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Business Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Stephen F Austin State University landed the #2 spot on the list. SFASU is a fairly large school located in Nacogdoches, Texas that handed out 9 bachelors’s business communications degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree business communications students list, SFASU has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Business/Corporate Communications Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Stephen F Austin State University is $13,723 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Business Communications students.

Read full report on Business/Corporate Communications at SFASU

#3

Oklahoma Wesleyan University

Bartlesville, Oklahoma

#3 in overall quality

$25,246 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Business Communications Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Wesleyan University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s business communications students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree business communications students list, OKWU or OWU has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Business/Corporate Communications Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend OKWU or OWU is $25,246 for southwest region bachelor’s degree business communications students.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Business/Corporate Communications at OKWU or OWU

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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