2022 Best Value Health Communication Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Health Communication Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Health Communication is the 722nd most popular major in the country with 325 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 8 health communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 health communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent health communication 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 health communication program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Health Communication Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Communication in the Southwest Region

#1

University of Houston

Houston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$18,689 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Health Communication Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region list. UH is a public institution located in Houston, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UH, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Health Communication Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UH are $18,689, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Health Communication at University of Houston

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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

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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