2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Journalism in Indiana (With Aid)

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Journalism Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 12,336 people earned their degree in general journalism, making the major the 58th most popular in the United States.

Across Indiana, there were 296 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,737 and $39,894 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general journalism programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general journalism program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Journalism Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Journalism Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Journalism in Indiana (With Aid)

#1

Ball State University

Muncie, Indiana

#1 in overall quality

$26,204 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ball State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Journalism Schools for a Master’s in Indiana For Those Getting Aid. Ball State University is a large public school situated in Muncie, Indiana. It awarded 2 masters’s journalism degrees in 2019-2020.

Ball State also made our “Best General Journalism Master’s Degree Schools in Indiana” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Ball State University are $26,204, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about General Journalism at Ball State

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Journalism (With Aid)

Notes and References

References

• 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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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