2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on TV Major in the Southwest Region

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Radio & Television is the 131st most popular major in the country with 6,559 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,213 radio and television graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 34 radio and television graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on TV Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in radio and television. That schools that top this list have a program in radio and television in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on TV Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Radio & Television in the Southwest Region

1

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#6 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Austin. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on TV Major in the Southwest Region list. UT Austin is a public institution located in Austin, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 27 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. 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 Radio & Television at UT Austin

2

University of North Texas
Denton, Texas

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Texas. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on TV Major in the Southwest Region. University of North Texas is a public institution located in Denton, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 7 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of North Texas Radio & Television 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.

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