2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in Indiana

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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 Indiana, there were 483 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,681 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Indiana” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communication and media studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in communication and media studies.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Indiana

The colleges and universities below are the best for indiana master’s degree media studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in Indiana

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Indiana University - South Bend
South Bend, Indiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - South Bend. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Indiana list. South Bend, Indiana is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s media studies degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Indiana University - South Bend

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Indiana University - Bloomington
Bloomington, Indiana

#3 overall quality in Indiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Bloomington. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Indiana list. Indiana University - Bloomington is located in Bloomington, Indiana and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 masters’s media studies degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Indiana University - Bloomington Communication & Media Studies Report

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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.

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