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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Communication & Media Studies is the 82nd most popular major in the country with 10,005 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,410 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 32 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,182 and $43,142 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 9 colleges that offered a degree 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.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Governors State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Governors State University is located in University Park, Illinois and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 3 masters’s media studies degrees to qualified students.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full GSU Communication & Media Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - South Bend. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Indiana University - South Bend is a small public school situated in South Bend, Indiana. It awarded 2 masters’s media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Communication & Media Studies at Indiana University - South Bend
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Edwardsville, Illinois, this fairly large public school awarded 2 degrees to qualified masters’s media studies students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full SIUE Communication & Media Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region list. UWM is a public institution located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The school has a large population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Communication & Media Studies at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Bloomington. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Bloomington, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s media studies degrees to 10 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full Indiana University - Bloomington Communication & Media Studies Report
Southern Illinois University Carbondale came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a fairly large school located in Carbondale, Illinois that handed out 9 masters’s media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Full Southern Illinois University Carbondale Communication & Media Studies Report
Ohio University - Athens Campus ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This large school is located in Athens, Ohio, and it awarded 2 masters’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%.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Ohio University - Athens Campus
Miami University - Oxford came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Oxford, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s media studies degrees to 40 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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 Miami University - Oxford
DePaul University landed the #8 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. DePaul is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 99 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% 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 DePaul
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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.
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