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In 2021-2022, 4,667 people earned their degree in arts & media management, making the major the 136th most popular in the United States. In , arts & media management graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $33,544 and had an average of $32,084 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 55 arts & media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $30,829 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 48 arts & media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,612 and $39,317 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in arts & media management. That schools that top this list have a program in arts & media management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Colorado University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Western Colorado University is a small school located in Gunnison, Colorado that handed out 7 masters’s media management degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Arts & Media Management at Western Colorado University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Utah University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Southern Utah University is a fairly large school located in Cedar City, Utah that handed out 11 masters’s media management degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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 Southern Utah University Arts & Media Management Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado State University - Fort Collins landed the #3 spot on the list. Colorado State is a large school located in Fort Collins, Colorado that handed out 30 masters’s media management 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 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Arts & Media Management at Colorado State University - Fort Collins
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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%.
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- *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.
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