2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Communication, Journalism, & Related Programs in the Great Lakes Region

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In 2021-2022, 1,349 people earned their degree in other communication, journalism, & related programs, making the major the 404th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 120 other communication, journalism, & related programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 other communication, journalism, & related programs graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,182 and $43,142 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in other communication, journalism, & related programs. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other communication, journalism, & related programs program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Communication, Journalism, & Related Programs in the Great Lakes Region

1

John Carroll University
University Heights, Ohio

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, John Carroll University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in University Heights, Ohio, and it awarded 0 masters’s other communication, journalism, and related programs degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full John Carroll Other Communication, Journalism, & Related Programs Report

2

Concordia University, Wisconsin
Mequon, Wisconsin

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Concordia University, Wisconsin. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs Major in the Great Lakes Region. This small school is located in Mequon, Wisconsin, and it awarded 1 masters’s other communication, journalism, and related programs degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Concordia University, Wisconsin Other Communication, Journalism, & Related Programs Report

3

Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

#1 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the #3 spot on the list. This large school is located in Evanston, Illinois, and it awarded 0 masters’s other communication, journalism, and related programs degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 99%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Josh Hallett.