2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Southwest region, there were 43 business/corporate communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,832 and $25,375 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 43 business/corporate communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in business/corporate communications. That schools that top this list have a program in business/corporate communications in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Southwest Region

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

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

1

Oklahoma Wesleyan University
Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Wesleyan University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s business communications students in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Business/Corporate Communications at OKWU or OWU

2

Stephen F Austin State University
Nacogdoches, Texas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Stephen F Austin State University landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Nacogdoches, Texas, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s business communications degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Business/Corporate Communications at Stephen F Austin State University

3

University of Houston
Houston, Texas

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

$39,832 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,375 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston landed the #3 spot on the list. This large school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 31 bachelors’s business communications degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Full UH Business/Corporate Communications Report

• Most Focused 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

• *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

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