2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Communication, Journalism, & Related Programs in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Other Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,253 people earned their degree in other communication, journalism, and related programs, making the major the 315th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 309 other communication, journalism, and related programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 191 other communication, journalism, and related programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great other communication, journalism, and related programs programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the other communication, journalism, and related programs program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Other Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Other Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Communication, Journalism, & Related Programs in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$56,567 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Other Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the #1 spot on the list. Northwestern University is a large school located in Evanston, Illinois that handed out 191 masters’s other communication, journalism, and related programs degrees in 2019-2020.

Northwestern did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Other Communication, Journalism, & Related Programs Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Northwestern are $56,567, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Other Communication, Journalism, & Related Programs at Northwestern

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Communication, Journalism, & Related Programs (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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Josh Hallett.

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