2023 Best Value Business Communications Schools in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 1,029 people earned their degree in business/corporate communications, making the major the 240th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, business/corporate communications graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $41,185 and had an average of $26,322 in loans still to pay off.

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

This year’s “Best Value Business Communications Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in business/corporate communications. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent business/corporate communications programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the business/corporate communications program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Business Communications Schools in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region business communications students.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications in the Southeast Region

1

Saint Leo University
Saint Leo, Florida

#2 in overall quality

$18,445 Average Net Price

$41,564 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Leo University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Business Communications Schools in the Southeast Region. Saint Leo University is a medium-sized school located in Saint Leo, Florida that handed out 5 ’s business communications degrees in 2020-2021.

St. Leo University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Business/Corporate Communications Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Saint Leo University is $18,445 for southeast region business communications students.

Full Saint Leo University Business/Corporate Communications Report

2

Christian Brothers University
Memphis, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$11,484 Average Net Price

$53,446 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Business Communications Schools in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Christian Brothers University landed the #2 spot on the list. Christian Brothers is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Memphis, Tennessee. It awarded 5 ’s business communications degrees in 2020-2021.

Christian Brothers did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Business/Corporate Communications Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Christian Brothers University is $11,484 for southeast region business communications students.

Read more about Business/Corporate Communications at Christian Brothers

• Best Value 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Joi Ito.