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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. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in Pennsylvania” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Other Communication & Media Studies is the 236th most popular major in the country with 3,287 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 247 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 $65,037 and $44,515 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in Pennsylvania” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania master’s degree other communication and media studies students.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Chatham University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 7 degrees to qualified masters’s other communication and media studies students in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Pennsylvania landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 10 degrees to qualified masters’s other communication and media studies students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 98%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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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 Pennsylvania list. Temple University is a public institution located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school has a large population, and it awarded 11 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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- 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%.
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- *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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