If you pursue a degree in communications, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #67 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Communications Schools in Missouri ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 200 degrees in communications during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The communication arts program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Communications rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for communications schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Communications Schools in Missouri list to help you make the college decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the communication arts degrees they offer, see the list below.
It's difficult to beat Saint Louis University if you want to pursue a degree in communications. SLU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Saint Louis. A Best Colleges rank of #244 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means SLU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 53 communications students who graduated with this degree at SLU in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat University of Missouri - St Louis if you want to pursue a degree in communications. UMSL is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Saint Louis. This university ranks 10th out of 48 colleges for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were about 80 communications students who graduated with this degree at UMSL in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat Northwest Missouri State University if you wish to pursue a degree in communications. Located in the town of Maryville, Northwest is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 19th out of 48 colleges for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were about 38 communications students who graduated with this degree at Northwest in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The communication arts program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Communications rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for communications schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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