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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Illinois” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Communication & Media Studies is the 82nd most popular major in the country with 10,005 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Illinois, there were 337 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,827 and $47,424 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Illinois” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communication & media studies. That schools that top this list have a program in communication & media studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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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 Illinois”.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Governors State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Governors State University is a small school located in University Park, Illinois that handed out 3 masters’s media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Governors State University Communication & Media Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Illinois list. SIUE is a fairly large public school situated in Edwardsville, Illinois. It awarded 2 masters’s media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Illinois list. Southern Illinois University Carbondale is located in Carbondale, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 9 masters’s media studies degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full SIUC Communication & Media Studies Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, DePaul University landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 99 degrees to qualified masters’s media studies students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 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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