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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Media Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking.
In 2020-2021, 4,788 people earned their degree in arts and media management, making the major the 136th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, arts and media management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $32,900 and had an average of $25,520 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 317 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,893 and $21,833 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 31 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in arts and media management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their arts and media management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The media management school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the Southwest Region”.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the Southwest Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the Southwest Region list. This fairly large school is located in Dallas, Texas, and it awarded 21 masters’s media management degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Arts & Media Management at SMU
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Houston. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the Southwest Region. University of Houston is located in Houston, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 masters’s media management degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Arts & Media Management at University of Houston
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the Southwest Region list. Tempe, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s media management degrees to 4 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
Read more about Arts & Media Management at ASU - Tempe
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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%.
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- *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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