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

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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 Ohio, there were 170 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,359 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Ohio” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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 Ohio

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

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

1

Ohio University - Athens Campus
Athens, Ohio

#9 overall quality in Ohio

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ohio University - Athens Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Ohio. This large school is located in Athens, Ohio, and it awarded 3 masters’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Communication & Media Studies at OHIO Athens

2

Miami University - Oxford
Oxford, Ohio

#5 overall quality in Ohio

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Ohio that were part of this year’s ranking, Miami University - Oxford landed the #2 spot on the list. Oxford, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s media studies degrees to 60 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Miami University - Oxford

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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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