2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communications in the Plains States Region

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

Across the Plains States region, there were 745 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,829 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communications. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in communications.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communications in the Plains States Region

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University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Dakota. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in the Plains States Region list. UND is a fairly large school located in Grand Forks, North Dakota that handed out 3 doctorate’s communication arts degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Communications at UND

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North Dakota State University - Main Campus
Fargo, North Dakota

Top 25% overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, North Dakota State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Fargo, North Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s communication arts degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Communications at North Dakota State University

• Most Focused Doctor’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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