by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Political Communication Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Political Communication is the 923rd most popular major in the country with 187 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 53 political communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 political communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Political Communication Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in political communication. That schools that top this list have a program in political communication in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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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 Political Communication Major in the Southeast Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree political communication students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Regent University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Political Communication Major in the Southeast Region. Regent is a private not-for-profit institution located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida Southern College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Political Communication Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Lakeland, Florida, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s political communication students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Political Communication Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Duke University landed the #3 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Durham, North Carolina, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s political communication degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.3% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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