4
Ranked Colleges
103
Degrees Awarded
$34,600
Avg Cost*
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Connecticut” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 10,005 people earned their degree in communication & media studies, making the major the 82nd most popular in the United States.
Across Connecticut, there were 118 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 103 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,555 and $23,609 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Connecticut” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communication & media studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their communication & media studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Connecticut” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut bachelor’s degree media studies students.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Bridgeport landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 11 degrees to qualified bachelors’s media studies students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at UBridgeport
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, Central Connecticut State University landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in New Britain, Connecticut, and it awarded 26 bachelors’s media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
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%.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Central Connecticut State University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Connecticut State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Connecticut list. New Haven, Connecticut is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s media studies degrees to 5 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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 Communication & Media Studies at Southern Connecticut State University
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, Quinnipiac University landed the #4 spot on the list. Quinnipiac University is a medium-sized school located in Hamden, Connecticut that handed out 61 bachelors’s media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Quinnipiac Communication & Media Studies Report
Switch to a Different Ranking Method
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
- *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.
Credits
,_Helsinki_Finland_(11643271925).jpg){kind=link}