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

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In 2020-2021, 729 people earned their degree in sports communication, making the major the 532nd most popular in the United States.

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 “Most Well Attended Sports Communication Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in sports communication. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in sports communication.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Sports Communication Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Sports Communication Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s”.

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

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Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Sports Communication Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s. This large school is located in Tempe, Arizona, and it awarded 12 masters’s sports communication degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read more about Sports Communication at ASU - Tempe

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Dallas Baptist University
Dallas, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Sports Communication Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Dallas Baptist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s sports communication degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

Full DBU Sports Communication Report

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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

• *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.