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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Communications Major in North Dakota” ranking - to help you make that decision.
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 North Dakota, there were 159 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,353 and $20,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,776 and $29,932 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in North Dakota” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communication & media studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their communication & media studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in North Dakota
The colleges and universities below are the best for north dakota master’s degree communications students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in North Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Dakota landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and it awarded 110 masters’s communications degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Communication & Media Studies at University of North Dakota
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Dakota State University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in North Dakota list. Fargo, North Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s communications degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% 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%.
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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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