2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Advertising in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 4,918 people earned their degree in advertising, making the major the 149th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 934 advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 17 advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in advertising. That schools that top this list have a program in advertising in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree advertising students.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Advertising in the Southwest Region

1

Del Mar College
Corpus Christi, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Del Mar College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Southwest Region. This fairly large school is located in Corpus Christi, Texas, and it awarded 6 associates’s advertising degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Advertising at DMC

2

El Paso Community College
El Paso, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend El Paso Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Southwest Region list. El Paso Community College is a large school located in El Paso, Texas that handed out 11 associates’s advertising degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Advertising at El Paso Community College

3

South Plains College
Levelland, Texas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, South Plains College landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Levelland, Texas, this medium-sized public school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified associates’s advertising students in 2020-2021.

Full South Plains College Advertising Report

• Most Focused Associate 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

• *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 Bill Koplitz.