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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” 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 the Great Lakes region, there were 1,528 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 34 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 9 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communication and media studies. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in communication and media studies.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s”.
Out of the 9 schools in the Most Well Attended Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana University - Bloomington landed the #1 spot on the list. IU Bloomington is a large school located in Bloomington, Indiana that handed out 9 masters’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
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.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s list. Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this large public school handed out 8 degrees to qualified masters’s media studies students in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 9 schools in the Most Well Attended Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville landed the #3 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Edwardsville, Illinois, and it awarded 5 masters’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Full SIUE Communication & Media Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Governors State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s list. University Park, Illinois is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s media studies degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Communication & Media Studies at Governors State University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Indiana University - South Bend. The school came in at #5 for the Most Well Attended Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s. Indiana University - South Bend is located in South Bend, Indiana and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s media studies degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Indiana University - South Bend
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio University - Athens Campus. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s list. OHIO Athens is located in Athens, Ohio and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s media studies degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Ohio University - Athens Campus
Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Most Well Attended Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s ranking. 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
DePaul University ranked #8 on this year’s Most Well Attended Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s list. This large school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 129 masters’s media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full DePaul Communication & Media Studies Report
With a ranking of #8, Miami University - Oxford did quite well on the 2023 Most Well Attended Media Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s 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 low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Miami University - Oxford
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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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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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