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2022 Best Value Telcom Tech Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

2 Ranked Colleges
49 Degrees Awarded
$23,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Telcom Tech Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Telcom Tech Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Telecommunications Technology is the 720th most popular major in the country with 646 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 49 telecommunications technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Telcom Tech Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in telecommunications technology/technician. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality telecommunications technology/technician programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the telecommunications technology/technician program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Telcom Tech Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Telcom Tech Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Telecommunications Technology in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas State Technical College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Telcom Tech Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. Texas State Technical College is located in Waco, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 ’s telcom tech degrees to qualified students.

TSTC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Telecommunications Technology Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $10,114 for southwest region telcom tech students with aid per year to attend TSTC.

Read full report on Telecommunications Technology at TSTC

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Methodist University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Telcom Tech Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s telcom tech degrees to 48 students in 2019-2020.

SMU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Telecommunications Technology Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for SMU is $36,222 for Southwest Region Telcom Tech students with aid.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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