2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in West Virginia

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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 West Virginia, there were 18 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,642 and $26,170 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in West Virginia” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for west virginia bachelor’s degree media studies students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in West Virginia

1

Concord University
Athens, West Virginia

#20 overall quality in West Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Concord University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in West Virginia. Concord University is located in Athens, West Virginia and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 bachelors’s media studies degrees to qualified students.

Full Concord University Communication & Media Studies Report

2

Alderson Broaddus University
Philippi, West Virginia

#8 overall quality in West Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Alderson Broaddus University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in West Virginia list. This small school is located in Philippi, West Virginia, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Alderson Broaddus University

3

West Virginia Wesleyan College
Buckhannon, West Virginia

#6 overall quality in West Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend West Virginia Wesleyan College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in West Virginia list. West Virginia Wesleyan College is located in Buckhannon, West Virginia and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s media studies degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Communication & Media Studies at West Virginia Wesleyan

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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

• *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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