by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Illinois” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Communication & Media Studies is the 82nd most popular major in the country with 10,266 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Illinois, there were 373 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,317 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Illinois” ranking looked at 4 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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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 Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Illinois” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Illinois”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Governors State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Illinois list. Located in University Park, Illinois, this small public school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified masters’s media studies students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Illinois. Edwardsville, Illinois is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s media studies degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Illinois list. SIUC is located in Carbondale, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s media studies degrees to qualified students.
Full Southern Illinois University Carbondale Communication & Media Studies Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, DePaul University landed the #4 spot on the list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s media studies degrees to 129 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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