2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in New Mexico

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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 New Mexico, there were 145 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,577 and $6,430 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,709 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in New Mexico” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in New Mexico

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in New Mexico”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in New Mexico

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Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus
Portales, New Mexico

#11 overall quality in New Mexico

$31,086 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in New Mexico list. Located in Portales, New Mexico, this small public school awarded 17 diplomas to qualified masters’s communications students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Communication & Media Studies at Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus

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New Mexico State University - Main Campus
Las Cruces, New Mexico

#5 overall quality in New Mexico

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in New Mexico that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. NMSU Main Campus is a fairly large school located in Las Cruces, New Mexico that handed out 7 masters’s communications degrees in 2020-2021.

Full New Mexico State University - Main Campus Communication & Media Studies Report

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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.

Credits

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