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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Communication Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Sports Communication is the 532nd most popular major in the country with 729 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 187 sports communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 sports communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

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

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

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

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

1

Dallas Baptist University
Dallas, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Dallas Baptist University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Communication Major in the Southwest Region. DBU is a small school located in Dallas, Texas that handed out 4 masters’s sports communication degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Sports Communication at DBU

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Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Communication Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Tempe, Arizona, and it awarded 12 masters’s sports communication degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Sports Communication at ASU - Tempe

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sports Communication

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.