2024 Best Communication & Media Studies Master's Degree Schools in Indiana

a master's degree in communication & media studies is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #44 out of 343 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 8 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Communication & Media Studies Master's Degree Schools in Indiana ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 239 master's degrees in communication & media studies during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Communication & Media Studies School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of communication & media studies for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on communication & media studies students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of communication & media studies students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt communication & media studies students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized communication & media studies related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for communication & media studies students working on their master's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Communication & Media Studies Master's Degree Schools in Indiana list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Communication & Media Studies in Indiana

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for communication & media studies students seeking a a master's degree.

Top Indiana Schools for a Master's in Communications

1

Purdue University - Main Campus
West Lafayette, IN

186 Annual Graduates

$62,884 Median Starting Salary

Any student who is interested in a master's degree in communication & media studies needs to look into Purdue University - Main Campus. Located in the city of West Lafayette, Purdue is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Master's graduates who receive their degree from the communications program earn about $62,884 in their early career salary.

More information about a master’s in communication & media studies from Purdue University - Main Campus

2

Indiana University - Bloomington
Bloomington, IN

9 Annual Graduates

Indiana University - Bloomington is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in communication & media studies. Located in the small city of Bloomington, IU Bloomington is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in communication & media studies from Indiana University - Bloomington

3

Ball State University
Muncie, IN

9 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in communication & media studies needs to check out Ball State University. Ball State is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Muncie.More information about a master’s in communication & media studies from Ball State University

4

Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN

5 Annual Graduates

Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis is a wonderful decision for students interested in a master's degree in communication & media studies. IUPUI is a very large public university located in the city of Indianapolis.More information about a master’s in communication & media studies from Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis

5

University of Southern Indiana
Evansville, IN

5 Annual Graduates

USI is a medium-sized public university located in the suburb of Evansville.More information about a master’s in communication & media studies from University of Southern Indiana

6

Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN

5 Annual Graduates

Located in the small city of Terre Haute, Indiana State is a public university with a medium-sized student population.More information about a master’s in communication & media studies from Indiana State University

7

Purdue University Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne, IN

6 Annual Graduates

PFW is a moderately-sized public university located in the large city of Fort Wayne.More information about a master’s in communication & media studies from Purdue University Fort Wayne

8

Purdue University Northwest
Hammond, IN

11 Annual Graduates

Purdue Northwest is a moderately-sized public university located in the large suburb of Hammond.More information about a master’s in communication & media studies from Purdue University Northwest

Best Communication & Media Studies Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Communication & Media Studies Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Illinois	221	249
Michigan	211	123
Ohio	207	76
Wisconsin	173	40

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Rankings in Majors Related to Communications

One of 5 majors within the Communication & Journalism area of study, Communication & Media Studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

Communications Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Speech Communication	213
Other Communication & Media Studies	14
Communication & Media Studies	12

Majors Similar to Communications

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Radio, Television & Digital Communication	51
Public Relations & Advertising	24
Journalism	7

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland. More about our data sources and methodologies.