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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Communication & Media Studies is the 82nd most popular major in the country with 10,266 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 697 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,136 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Pennsylvania” 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.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania master’s degree media studies students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Pennsylvania. Edinboro University of Pennsylvania is located in Edinboro, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 masters’s media studies degrees to qualified students.
Full Edinboro University of Pennsylvania Communication & Media Studies Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Clarion University of Pennsylvania landed the #2 spot on the list. Clarion University is a small public school situated in Clarion, Pennsylvania. It awarded 9 masters’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Clarion University of Pennsylvania Communication & Media Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Drexel University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in Pennsylvania list. Drexel University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It awarded 5 masters’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Communication & Media Studies at Drexel
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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%.
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- *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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