Arts & Media Management is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #136 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 65 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of arts & media management. Combined, these schools handed out 4,667 degrees in arts & media management to qualified students.
Your choice of arts & media management school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for arts & media management schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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Best Schools for Arts & Media Management in the United States
The schools below may not offer all types of media management degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer. Only those schools that rank in the top 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
Every student who is interested in arts & media management needs to check out Carnegie Mellon University. Located in the large city of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #8 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Carnegie Mellon is a great university overall.
There were approximately 53 arts & media management students who graduated with this degree at Carnegie Mellon in the most recent year we have data available. Arts & Media Management degree recipients from Carnegie Mellon University get an earnings boost of about $14,361 over the typical income of arts & media management graduates.
Any student who is interested in arts & media management has to take a look at Belmont University. Belmont is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Nashville. This university ranks 3rd out of 41 colleges for overall quality in the state of Tennessee.
There were about 411 arts & media management students who graduated with this degree at Belmont in the most recent data year. Soon after graduation, media management degree recipients usually earn an average of $30,666 at the beginning of their careers.
University of Southern California is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in arts & media management. USC is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Los Angeles. A Best Colleges rank of #13 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means USC is a great university overall.
There were approximately 114 arts & media management students who graduated with this degree at USC in the most recent year we have data available. Students who receive their degree from the media management program make an average of $26,975 in their early career salary.
Every student pursuing a degree in arts & media management needs to take a look at Boston University. Boston U is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Boston. A Best Colleges rank of #23 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Boston U is a great university overall.
There were approximately 33 arts & media management students who graduated with this degree at Boston U in the most recent data year. Those arts & media management students who get their degree from Boston University earn $18,792 more than the standard media management student.
Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Evanston. A Best Colleges rank of #5 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Northwestern is a great university overall.
There were approximately 87 arts & media management students who graduated with this degree at Northwestern in the most recent data year. Arts & Media Management degree recipients from Northwestern University receive an earnings boost of about $14,144 over the typical income of arts & media management majors.
New School University is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of New York. This school ranks 22nd out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 165 arts & media management students who graduated with this degree at New School University in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the arts & media management degree program at The New School earn $4,364 more than the average college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
Located in the city of Chicago, Columbia is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population. This college ranks 9th out of 85 schools for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were roughly 118 arts & media management students who graduated with this degree at Columbia in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduation, media management degree recipients typically make around $23,844 in the first five years of their career.
Syracuse is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Syracuse. A Best Colleges rank of #62 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Syracuse is a great university overall.
There were roughly 46 arts & media management students who graduated with this degree at Syracuse in the most recent year we have data available. Arts & Media Management degree recipients from Syracuse University receive an earnings boost of about $2,010 over the typical earnings of arts & media management majors.
Located in the large city of Philadelphia, Drexel is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #115 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Drexel is a great university overall.
There were approximately 110 arts & media management students who graduated with this degree at Drexel in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the media management program state that they receive average early career wages of $31,953.
U Miami is a large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Coral Gables. This university ranks 6th out of 70 colleges for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were roughly 51 arts & media management students who graduated with this degree at U Miami in the most recent year we have data available. Arts & Media Management degree recipients from University of Miami get an earnings boost of about $16,429 above the average income of arts & media management majors.
Located in the city of Los Angeles, UCLA is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #28 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UCLA is a great university overall.
There were about 9 arts & media management students who graduated with this degree at UCLA in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the large city of Boston, Berklee College of Music is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.
There were approximately 273 arts & media management students who graduated with this degree at Berklee College of Music in the most recent year we have data available. Those arts & media management students who get their degree from Berklee College of Music earn $6,892 more than the standard media management student.
UK is a fairly large public university located in the city of Lexington. This university ranks 1st out of 39 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were approximately 50 arts & media management students who graduated with this degree at UK in the most recent year we have data available. Arts & Media Management degree recipients from University of Kentucky earn a boost of around $2,540 over the average earnings of arts & media management graduates.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
Your choice of arts & media management school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for arts & media management schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
