2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communications in Michigan

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 Master’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Michigan” 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 Michigan, there were 241 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 39 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,121 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Michigan” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in communications. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in communications.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Michigan

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

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communications in Michigan

1

Andrews University
Berrien Springs, Michigan

#11 overall quality in Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Andrews University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Michigan. Andrews University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It awarded 8 masters’s communication arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Communications at Andrews University

2

University of Michigan - Flint
Flint, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Michigan - Flint. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Michigan. Flint, Michigan is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s communication arts degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

Full University of Michigan - Flint Communications Report

3

Oakland University
Rochester Hills, Michigan

#9 overall quality in Michigan

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, Oakland University landed the #3 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Rochester Hills, Michigan, and it awarded 14 masters’s communication arts degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Communications at Oakland

4

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan

#6 overall quality in Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Michigan University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in Michigan list. WMU is a public institution located in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 11 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Communications at WMU

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communications in the Great Lakes Region
• Most Focused Master’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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland.