2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Communications Technology is the 281st most popular major in the country with 915 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, communications technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $21,549 and had an average of $15,650 in loans still to pay off.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 communications technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in communications technology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their communications technology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communications Technology

1

Point Park University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Point Park University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major list. Point Park University is a small school located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that handed out 8 masters’s communications tech degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Communications Technology at Point Park

2

Lawrence Technological University
Southfield, Michigan

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Lawrence Technological University landed the #2 spot on the list. Lawrence Technological University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Southfield, Michigan. It awarded 4 masters’s communications tech degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% 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%.

Read full report on Communications Technology at Lawrence Technological University

3

University of Houston - Clear Lake
Houston, Texas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Tech Major that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston - Clear Lake landed the #3 spot on the list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s communications tech degrees to 9 students 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%.

Full UH Clear Lake Communications Technology Report

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.