2023 Most Focused Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications in the Southwest Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Business/Corporate Communications is the 240th most popular major in the country with 1,029 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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.
This year’s “Schools 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. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in business/corporate communications.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Schools Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region business communications students.
Top 3 Most Focused Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications in the Southwest Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools 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. This small school is located in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and it awarded 2 ’s business communications degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate 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 full report on Business/Corporate Communications at OKWU or OWU
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stephen F Austin State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Southwest Region. This fairly large school is located in Nacogdoches, Texas, and it awarded 10 ’s business communications degrees in 2020-2021.
Full SFASU Business/Corporate Communications Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Houston. The school came in at #3 for the Schools Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Southwest Region. UH is a large school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 31 ’s business communications degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.
Read full report on Business/Corporate Communications at UH
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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
- *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.
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