2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in South Carolina (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Communications Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

With 68,079 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, communication and media studies is the 9th most popular major in the United States. 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 South Carolina, there were 812 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $27,255 and $26,743 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great communication and media studies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the communication and media studies program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Communications Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Communications Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for south carolina master’s degree communications students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in South Carolina (With Aid)

#1

Bob Jones University

Greenville, South Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$9,573 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bob Jones University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Communications Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina For Those Getting Aid list. Greenville, South Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s communications degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

Bob Jones University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Communication & Media Studies Master’s Degree Schools in South Carolina” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Bob Jones University are $9,573, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Bob Jones University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in the Southeast Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies (With Aid)

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland.

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