2022 Most Popular Master's Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in South Dakota

If you plan on getting your master's degree in communication and media studies, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #43 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many colleges that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

In 2022, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Most Popular Master's Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in South Dakota ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 17 master's degrees in communication and media studies during the 2019-2020 academic year.

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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. Plus, you can view our other rankings for communication and media studies.

 

Most Popular Schools for Master’s Students to Study Communication & Media Studies in South Dakota

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

Most Well Attended Schools for Communications Students Working on Their Master's

1

South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD

14 Annual Master's Degrees

#1 Best Quality In SD

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

You'll be surrounded by many like-minded peers at South Dakota State University if you wish to pursue a master's degree in communication and media studies. Located in the town of Brookings, South Dakota State is a public university with a fairly large student population. This isn't the only ranking where the school placed. It's also #1 in quality for master's degrees in communication and media studies in South Dakota. More information about a master’s in communication and media studies from South Dakota State University

2

University of South Dakota
Vermillion, SD

3 Annual Master's Degrees

#2 Best Quality In SD

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

You'll be surrounded by many like-minded peers at University of South Dakota if you want to pursue a master's degree in communication and media studies. USD is a medium-sized public university located in the town of Vermillion. Potential students might also be interested to know that the school ranks #2 in quality for master's degrees in communication and media studies in South Dakota. More information about a master’s in communication and media studies from University of South Dakota

Best Communication & Media Studies Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	184	133
Minnesota	169	74
Iowa	146	35
Kansas	144	34
Nebraska	116	14
North Dakota	100	9

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Rankings in Majors Related to Communications

One of 5 majors within the Communication & Journalism area of study, Communication & Media Studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

Communications Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Communication & Media Studies	13
Speech Communication	3
Other Communication & Media Studies	1

Most Popular Majors Related to Communications

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Journalism	5

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.