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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 Plains States region, there were 55 other communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 41 other communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree other communication and media studies students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Drake University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Plains States Region list. Drake is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Des Moines, Iowa. It awarded 36 masters’s other communication and media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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 Drake
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota State University landed the #2 spot on the list. South Dakota State is a fairly large public school situated in Brookings, South Dakota. It awarded 5 masters’s other communication and media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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 Other Communication & Media Studies at South Dakota State
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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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