2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (Income $48-$75k) in Virginia

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Communications Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Communication & Media Studies is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 9th of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 68,079 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, communication and media studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $32,728 and had an average of $24,931 in loans still to pay off.

Across Virginia, there were 1,814 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,678 and $28,507 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great communication and media studies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the communication and media studies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Communications Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Communications Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Communications Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (Income $48-$75k) in Virginia

#1

Regent University

Virginia Beach, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$17,052 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$54,713 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Regent University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Communications Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia For Those Making $48-$75k list. Regent is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It awarded 22 doctorate’s communications degrees in 2019-2020.

Regent did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Communication & Media Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Regent are $17,052, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Regent

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (Income $48-$75k)

Notes and References

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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland.

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