2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communications Technologies & Support in Texas

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Technologies & Support Major in Texas” ranking.

Communications Technologies & Support is the 32nd most popular major in the country with 14,826 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, communications technologies and support graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $25,611 and had an average of $24,581 in loans still to pay off.

Across Texas, there were 958 communications technologies and support graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,216 and $25,834 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 62 communications technologies and support graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,376 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Technologies & Support Major in Texas” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in communications technologies and support. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in communications technologies and support.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Technologies & Support Major in Texas

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Technologies & Support Major in Texas”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communications Technologies & Support in Texas

1

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#4 overall quality in Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Technologies & Support Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #1 spot on the list. Southern Methodist University is a fairly large school located in Dallas, Texas that handed out 53 masters’s communications technologies and support degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, 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 90%.

Read more about Communications Technologies & Support at SMU

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University of Houston - Clear Lake
Houston, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston - Clear Lake. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Technologies & Support Major in Texas list. This medium-sized school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 9 masters’s communications technologies and support degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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 Technologies & Support at University of Houston - Clear Lake

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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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