2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in Kentucky (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Communication & Media Studies is the 74th most popular major in the country with 10,951 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Kentucky, there were 56 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,847 and $34,311 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality communication and media studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the communication and media studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for kentucky master’s degree media studies students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in Kentucky (With Aid)

#1

Murray State University

Murray, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$14,400 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Murray State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Media Studies Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid list. This medium-sized school is located in Murray, Kentucky, and it awarded 10 masters’s media studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Murray State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Communication & Media Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Murray State are $14,400, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Murray State

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (With Aid)

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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland.

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