2024 Best Communications Master's Degree Schools in North Carolina
2Colleges in North Carolina
66Master's Degrees
If you plan on getting your master's degree in communications, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #184 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in North Carolina to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of communications. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 66 master's degrees in communications during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on communications students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of communications students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized communications related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for communications students working on their master's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Communications Master's Degree Schools in North Carolina list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Communications in North Carolina
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in communications.
Top North Carolina Schools for a Master's in Communication Arts
It's difficult to beat Wake Forest University if you wish to pursue a master's degree in communications. Located in the city of Winston-Salem, Wake Forest University is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a master’s in communications from Wake Forest University
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).