2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in Georgia

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With 66,787 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, communication and media studies is the 10th most popular major in the United States. In 2019-2020, communication and media studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,115 and had an average of $25,414 in loans still to pay off.

Across Georgia, there were 801 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,127 and $31,517 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $69,023 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communications Major in Georgia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communication and media studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their communication and media studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communications Major in Georgia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communications Major in Georgia”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in Georgia

1

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Georgia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communications Major in Georgia that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Georgia landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Georgia is a large school located in Athens, Georgia that handed out 10 doctorate’s communications degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UGA Communication & Media Studies Report

2

Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia

#4 overall quality in Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communications Major in Georgia list. Georgia State is located in Atlanta, Georgia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 doctorate’s communications degrees to qualified students.

Full Georgia State University Communication & Media Studies Report

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• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for 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%.

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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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