San Antonio, TX (population: 1,402,013) has eleven communications schools within its city limits. St Marys University, the highest ranked school in the city with a communications program, has a total student population of 3,893. It is the 405th highest ranked school in the USA and the 12th highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University). To learn more about communications programs in San Antonio, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of communications professors at St Marys University such as Dr Elijah Akhahenda, Alan Cirlin, Karen Daas, Maureen Ebben, Elaine Jansky, and Veronica Lozano.
Communications students from San Antonio schools who go on to become communication disorder specialists, speech therapists, speech language pathologists, teacher of the speech and hearing handicappeds, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 25,090 people working as communications teachers alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $65,190. Also, Rehabilitation counselors make on average $34,710 per year and there are about 112,690 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the San Antonio area alone, there are 360 employed rehabilitation counselors earning an average salary of $41,150. Communications teachers in this area earn $57,700/yr and there are 110 employed.
San Antonio lies in Bexar county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the San Antonio area has 837,030 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.9% unemployment rate, $18.25/hr average worker wage, and a $37,970 average annual salary. Thus, about 0.126 out of every 1000 jobs in San Antonio are held by communications teachers, and 0.436/1000 are held by rehabilitation counselors.
Of the 11 communications schools in San Antonio, only 3 have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, Hallmark College of Technology/Hallmark College of Aeronautics comes out as the most expensive ($37,478/yr) for communications students, with San Antonio College as the lowest, reported at only $3,422/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from San Antonio |
| Seguin | TX | - | 2 | 43.9208 | 52 | 33.7 miles |
| Kerrville | TX | - | 2 | 41.881 | 56 | 55.5 miles |
| Austin | TX | 792,778 | 27 | 18.4164 | 459 | 74.4 miles |
| Cedar Park | TX | 72,258 | 0 | - | 0 | 83.3 miles |
| Pflugerville | TX | 43,849 | 1 | 21.9644 | 4 | 86.3 miles |
| Georgetown | TX | 55,998 | 3 | 24.3873 | 208 | 95.8 miles |