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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 3,287 people earned their degree in other communication & media studies, making the major the 236th most popular in the United States.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 311 other communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 other communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,633 and $152,837 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in other communication & media studies. That schools that top this list have a program in other communication & media studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region doctor’s degree other communication and media studies students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Stanford University landed the #1 spot on the list. Stanford University is a fairly large school located in Stanford, California that handed out 5 doctorate’s other communication and media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 98%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.2% 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 more about Other Communication & Media Studies at Stanford
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Oregon landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Eugene, Oregon, and it awarded 7 doctorate’s other communication and media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Other Communication & Media Studies at UO
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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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