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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 3,374 people earned their degree in other communication and media studies, making the major the 236th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 76 other communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 62 other communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in other communication and media studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other communication and media studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Southwest Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree other communication and media studies students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma Baptist University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Southwest Region list. OBU is a small school located in Shawnee, Oklahoma that handed out 15 bachelors’s other communication and media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Other Communication & Media Studies at OBU
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Dallas, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 41 degrees to qualified bachelors’s other communication and media studies students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.
Full SMU Other Communication & Media Studies Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cameron University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Southwest Region. Cameron University is a small school located in Lawton, Oklahoma that handed out 5 bachelors’s other communication and media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Other Communication & Media Studies at Cameron University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Incarnate Word. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Southwest Region list. San Antonio, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s other communication and media studies degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 5.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about Other Communication & Media Studies at University of the Incarnate Word
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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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