2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Kentucky

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Kentucky” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Communications is the 67th most popular major in the country with 12,001 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Kentucky, there were 35 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 35 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,941 and $26,734 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Kentucky” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communications. That schools that top this list have a program in communications in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Kentucky

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Kentucky”.

Top 6 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communications in Kentucky

1

Georgetown College
Georgetown, Kentucky

#16 overall quality in Kentucky

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgetown College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Georgetown, Kentucky, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s communication arts degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.9% 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%.

Full Georgetown College Communications Report

2

Asbury University
Wilmore, Kentucky

#13 overall quality in Kentucky

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, Asbury University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Wilmore, Kentucky, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 12 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s communication arts students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Communications at Asbury University

3

Thomas More University
Crestview Hills, Kentucky

#14 overall quality in Kentucky

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Thomas More University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Kentucky list. This small school is located in Crestview Hills, Kentucky, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s communication arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Communications at Thomas More University

4

Alice Lloyd College
Pippa Passes, Kentucky

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Alice Lloyd College. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Kentucky. Alice Lloyd College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Pippa Passes, Kentucky. It awarded 1 bachelors’s communication arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Communications at Alice Lloyd

5

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Louisville, Kentucky

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Kentucky list. This small school is located in Louisville, Kentucky, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s communication arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Full SBTS Communications Report

6

Kentucky Mountain Bible College
Jackson, Kentucky

Kentucky Mountain Bible College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Kentucky ranking. Jackson, Kentucky is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s communication arts degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full KMBC Communications Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communications in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Communications

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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