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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Other Communication & Media Studies is the 236th most popular major in the country with 3,374 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 217 other communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 other communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,028 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in Pennsylvania” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other communication and media studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other communication and media studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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 “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in Pennsylvania” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania doctor’s degree other communication and media studies students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Indiana, Pennsylvania is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s other communication and media studies degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Pennsylvania landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 10 doctorate’s other communication and media studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
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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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