2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in New Mexico
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Ranked Colleges
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$31,086
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Communication & Media Studies is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 10th of all the majors we analyze. In 2021-2022, 62,855 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In , communication & media studies graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $34,194 and had an average of $23,803 in loans still to pay off.
Across New Mexico, there were 127 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,577 and $29,339 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 33 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,709 and $37,223 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in New Mexico” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communication & media studies. That schools that top this list have a program in communication & media studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in New Mexico
The colleges and universities below are the best for new mexico master’s degree communications students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. ENMU - Main Campus is located in Portales, New Mexico and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 25 masters’s communications degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.0% 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 Communication & Media Studies at ENMU - Main Campus
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and it awarded 8 masters’s communications degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, 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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