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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Virginia” ranking.
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 Virginia, there were 324 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 23 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,140 and $42,203 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Virginia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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 Virginia”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Bridgewater College landed the #1 spot on the list. Bridgewater is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Bridgewater, Virginia. It awarded 6 masters’s media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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 Bridgewater
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Commonwealth University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Virginia list. VCU is located in Richmond, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 17 masters’s media studies degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full VCU Communication & Media Studies Report
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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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