2025 Best Communication & Media Studies Schools in Idaho
4Colleges in Idaho
519Communications Degrees Awarded
$36,850Avg Early-Career Salary
Ranked #10 in popularity, communication & media studies is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Idaho to determine which ones were the best for communication & media studies students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 519 degrees in communication & media studies annually.
Choosing a Great Communication & Media Studies School
Your choice of communication & media studies school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for communication & media studies schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Pick Your Communication & Media Studies Degree Level
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Communication & Media Studies Schools in Idaho list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Communication & Media Studies in Idaho
The schools below may not offer all types of communications degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Boise State University is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in communication & media studies. Boise State is a very large public university located in the city of Boise. A Best Colleges rank of #512 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Boise State is a great university overall.
There were about 198 communication & media studies students who graduated with this degree at Boise State in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the communications program earn around $37,954 in their early career salary.
University of Idaho is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in communication & media studies. Located in the town of Moscow, U of I is a public university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #845 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means U of I is a great university overall.
There were roughly 16 communication & media studies students who graduated with this degree at U of I in the most recent data year.
Brigham Young University - Idaho is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in communication & media studies. BYU - I is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the town of Rexburg. This university ranks 5th out of 10 colleges for overall quality in the state of Idaho.
There were roughly 205 communication & media studies students who graduated with this degree at BYU - I in the most recent year we have data available. Students who receive their degree from the communications program earn an average of $36,941 in the first couple years of working.
Idaho State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in communication & media studies. Located in the small city of Pocatello, ISU is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 4th out of 10 schools for overall quality in the state of Idaho.
There were approximately 44 communication & media studies students who graduated with this degree at ISU in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the communications program report average early career earnings of $33,475.
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).
Your choice of communication & media studies school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for communication & media studies schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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