2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Plains States Region

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Other Communication & Media Studies is the 236th most popular major in the country with 3,374 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 58 other communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 50 other communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Plains States Region” 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.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree other communication and media studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Communication & Media Studies in the Plains States Region

1

Drake University
Des Moines, Iowa

Top 15% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Drake University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Des Moines, Iowa, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 41 diplomas to qualified masters’s other communication and media studies students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Other Communication & Media Studies at Drake University

2

South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

Top 25% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the Plains States Region list. South Dakota State is located in Brookings, South Dakota and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 masters’s other communication and media studies degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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 South Dakota State University Other Communication & Media Studies Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Communication & Media Studies

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.

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