2022 Most Popular Doctor's Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in California

A doctor's degree in communication and media studies is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #52 out of 295 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many colleges that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2022 ranking, College Factual looked at 6 schools in California to determine which ones were the most popular for communication and media studies students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 27 doctor's degrees in communication and media studies during the 2019-2020 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Communication & Media Studies School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of school for getting your doctor's degree in communications matters. One of the reasons we created our Most Popular Doctor's Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in California ranking is to help you make that choice.

While being high in popularity does not always mean a school has a quality communication and media studies program, it is a sign that a large number of students choose the school. This may be due to it being a great value, it offering a stellar educational experience, or the subject is a major focus of the school.

More Ways to Rank Communication & Media Studies Schools

This is not our only ranking, nor the only degree level we have ranked. In addition to this ranking, you may want to take at the rankings for different degree levels as called out above. You can also narrow your search by location by filtering for a certain area of the country. On top of that, you can visit our other rankings for communication and media studies.

 

Most Popular Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Communication & Media Studies in California

The following list ranks the most popular colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in communication and media studies.

Most Well Attended Schools for Communications Students Working on Their Doctorate

1

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

14 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#2 Best Quality In CA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

University of Southern California is a popular choice for students pursuing a doctor's degree in communication and media studies. USC is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Los Angeles. Potential students might also be interested to know that the school ranks #2 in quality for doctor's degrees in communication and media studies in California.

There were roughly 14 communication and media studies individuals who graduated with this degree at USC in the most recent data year.

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2

University of California - San Diego
La Jolla, CA

4 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#5 Best Quality In CA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in communication and media studies needs to look into University of California - San Diego. UCSD is a very large public university located in the large city of La Jolla. Potential students might also be interested to know that the school ranks #5 in quality for doctor's degrees in communication and media studies in California.

There were about 4 communication and media studies individuals who graduated with this degree at UCSD in the most recent year we have data available.

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2

Stanford University
Stanford, CA

4 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#1 Best Quality In CA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

Stanford University is one of the most popular schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in communication and media studies. Stanford is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Stanford. Potential students might also be interested to know that the school ranks #1 in quality for doctor's degrees in communication and media studies in California.

There were roughly 4 communication and media studies students who graduated with this degree at Stanford in the most recent year we have data available.

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4

University of California - Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA

3 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#3 Best Quality In CA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

University of California - Santa Barbara is a popular choice for students interested in a doctor's degree in communication and media studies. Located in the suburb of Santa Barbara, UCSB is a public university with a fairly large student population. This isn't the only ranking where the school placed. It's also #3 in quality for doctor's degrees in communication and media studies in California.

There were approximately 3 communication and media studies students who graduated with this degree at UCSB in the most recent year we have data available.

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5

University of California - Davis
Davis, CA

2 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#4 Best Quality In CA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

Located in the small suburb of Davis, UC Davis is a public university with a very large student population. You also may be intersted to know that the school ranks #4 in quality for doctor's degrees in communication and media studies in California.

There were about 2 communication and media studies individuals who graduated with this degree at UC Davis in the most recent data year.

More information about a doctorate in communication and media studies from University of California - Davis

6

Chapman University
Orange, CA

Chapman is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Orange. More information about a doctorate in communication and media studies from Chapman University

Best Communication & Media Studies Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Washington	115	14
Oregon	102	4

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Communication & Media Studies Related Rankings by Major

Communication & Media Studies is one of 5 different types of Communication & Journalism programs to choose from.

Communications Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Speech Communication	14
Communications	9
Other Communication & Media Studies	4

Most Popular Majors Related to Communications

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Radio, Television & Digital Communication	6

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland. More about our data sources and methodologies.