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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. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic 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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 674 other communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 28 other communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,038 and $47,245 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in other communication & media studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other 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 Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Chatham University landed the #1 spot on the list. Chatham is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It awarded 7 masters’s other communication and media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
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. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. This large school is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 10 masters’s other communication and media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 98%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 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 0.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full UPenn Other Communication & Media Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Temple University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Temple University is a large public school situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It awarded 11 masters’s other communication and media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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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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