2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Advertising in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Advertising Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 4,751 people earned their degree in advertising, making the major the 138th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 897 advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 53 advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Advertising Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in advertising. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent advertising programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the advertising program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Advertising Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Advertising Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Advertising in the Southwest Region

#1

The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$22,886 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Austin. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Advertising Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region list. Located in Austin, Texas, this large public school awarded 38 diplomas to qualified masters’s advertising students in 2019-2020.

UT Austin also made our “Best Advertising Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at UT Austin are $22,886, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#2

Southern Methodist University

Dallas, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$47,478 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Advertising Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region list. SMU is located in Dallas, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 15 masters’s advertising degrees to qualified students.

SMU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Advertising Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at SMU are $47,478.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Advertising

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 Bill Koplitz.

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