2022 Best Vallue Communications Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Making Over $110k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Vallue Communications Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Communication & Media Studies is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 9th of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 68,079 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, communication and media studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $32,728 and had an average of $24,931 in loans still to pay off.

Across West Virginia, there were 218 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,933 and $22,778 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 40 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Vallue Communications Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Making Over $110k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in communication and media studies. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality communication and media studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the communication and media studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Vallue Communications Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Making Over $110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Vallue Communications Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Making Over $110k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (Income Over $110k) in West Virginia

#1

West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$26,154 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend West Virginia University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Vallue Communications Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Making Over $110k list. Located in Morgantown, West Virginia, this large public school awarded 39 degrees to qualified masters’s communications students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at WVU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Communication & Media Studies Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at WVU are $26,154, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full WVU Communication & Media Studies Report

#2

West Virginia State University

Institute, West Virginia

$19,555 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend West Virginia State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Vallue Communications Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia For Those Making Over $110k. Institute, West Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s communications degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

WVSU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #0 on our “Best Communication & Media Studies Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at WVSU are $19,555.

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at WVSU

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (Income Over $110k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (Income Over $110k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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• Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland.

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