2022 Best Value Business Communications Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Business Communications Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Business/Corporate Communications is the 240th most popular major in the country with 1,029 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, business/corporate communications graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $37,176 and had an average of $25,350 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 164 business/corporate communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,540 and $26,971 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 business/corporate communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent business/corporate communications programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the business/corporate communications program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Value Business Communications Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” list to help you make the college decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Value Business Communications Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Business Communications Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Roosevelt University

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$21,605 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$53,984 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Roosevelt University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Business Communications Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region. Roosevelt University is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 11 masters’s business communications degrees to qualified students.

Roosevelt did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Business/Corporate Communications Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Roosevelt University are $21,605, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Roosevelt Business/Corporate Communications Report

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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