2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism in West Virginia

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Communication & Journalism is the 11th most popular major in the country with 120,571 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, communication and journalism graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,266 and had an average of $24,758 in loans still to pay off.

Across West Virginia, there were 552 communication and journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,948 and $25,420 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 145 communication and journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,814 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Communication & Journalism Major in West Virginia for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in communication and journalism. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular communication and journalism programs in the United States.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Communication & Journalism Major in West Virginia for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for west virginia master’s degree communication & journalism students.

Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism in West Virginia

1

West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia

#2 overall quality in West Virginia

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Communication & Journalism Major in West Virginia for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, West Virginia University landed the #1 spot on the list. Morgantown, West Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s communication and journalism degrees to 142 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Communication & Journalism at WVU

2

West Virginia State University
Institute, West Virginia

#23 overall quality in West Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend West Virginia State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Communication & Journalism Major in West Virginia for a Master’s. WVSU is located in Institute, West Virginia and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 masters’s communication and journalism degrees to qualified students.

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3

Marshall University
Huntington, West Virginia

#5 overall quality in West Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Marshall University. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Communication & Journalism Major in West Virginia for a Master’s. Located in Huntington, West Virginia, this fairly large public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s communication and journalism students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Communication & Journalism at Marshall University

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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.