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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Connecticut” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 10,266 people earned their degree in communication and media studies, making the major the 82nd most popular in the United States.
Across Connecticut, there were 77 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 54 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,551 and $25,342 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Connecticut” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in communication and media studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their communication and media studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Connecticut” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Connecticut”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Bridgeport. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Connecticut list. UBridgeport is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It awarded 20 bachelors’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at UBridgeport
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central Connecticut State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Connecticut. This medium-sized school is located in New Britain, Connecticut, and it awarded 30 bachelors’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Communication & Media Studies at CCSU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Connecticut State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Connecticut list. Southern Connecticut State University is a medium-sized public school situated in New Haven, Connecticut. It awarded 4 bachelors’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at SCSU
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, Quinnipiac University landed the #4 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Hamden, Connecticut, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Communication & Media Studies at Quinnipiac
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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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