2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Advertising in the Southwest Region

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Advertising is the 149th most popular major in the country with 4,918 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 934 advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 41 advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in advertising. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in advertising.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree advertising students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Advertising in the Southwest Region

1

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#10 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Southwest Region list. SMU is a fairly large school located in Dallas, Texas that handed out 10 masters’s advertising degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Advertising at SMU

2

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#6 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Austin, Texas, this large public school handed out 31 degrees to qualified masters’s advertising students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Advertising at UT Austin

• Most Focused 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

• *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.