2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Mississippi

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Communication & Media Studies is the 82nd most popular major in the country with 10,266 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Mississippi, there were 50 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 47 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,502 and $27,577 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Mississippi” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Mississippi

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Mississippi”.

Top 5 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in Mississippi

1

Tougaloo College
Tougaloo, Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tougaloo College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Mississippi list. Located in Tougaloo, Mississippi, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 11 degrees to qualified bachelors’s media studies students in 2020-2021.

Full Tougaloo College Communication & Media Studies Report

2

Alcorn State University
Alcorn State, Mississippi

#22 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Alcorn State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Mississippi. Alcorn State is a small school located in Alcorn State, Mississippi that handed out 12 bachelors’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Alcorn State University

3

Jackson State University
Jackson, Mississippi

#14 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Jackson State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Mississippi. Located in Jackson, Mississippi, this medium-sized public school handed out 14 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s media studies students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Communication & Media Studies at Jackson State University

4

William Carey University
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

#4 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend William Carey University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Mississippi. This medium-sized school is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at William Carey University

5

Mississippi College
Clinton, Mississippi

#3 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi College. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Mississippi. MC is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Clinton, Mississippi. It awarded 3 bachelors’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at MC

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies

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

• *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.

Credits

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