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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Utah” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Communication & Media Studies is the 82nd most popular major in the country with 10,266 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Utah, there were 115 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 103 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,652 and $24,483 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Utah” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in communication and media studies. That schools that top this list have a program in communication and media studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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 Utah” 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 Utah”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Utah that were part of this year’s ranking, Brigham Young University - Provo landed the #1 spot on the list. Brigham Young University - Provo is located in Provo, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 84 bachelors’s media studies degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at BYU
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Utah that were part of this year’s ranking, Dixie State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Dixie State University is a fairly large public school situated in Saint George, Utah. It awarded 19 bachelors’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Dixie State College Communication & Media Studies Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Utah that were part of this year’s ranking, Westminster College Utah landed the #3 spot on the list. Westminster College Salt Lake is a small school located in Salt Lake City, Utah that handed out 0 bachelors’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Full Westminster College Salt Lake Communication & Media Studies Report
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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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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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