2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in Nebraska

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Communication & Media Studies is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 10th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 66,787 degrees were awarded to students with this major. 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 Nebraska, there were 156 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,716 and $33,175 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,838 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in Nebraska” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in communication and media studies. That schools that top this list have a program in communication and media studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in Nebraska

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

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

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University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska

#5 overall quality in Nebraska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska at Omaha. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in Nebraska list. Omaha, Nebraska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s communications degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at University of Nebraska at Omaha

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University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska

#1 overall quality in Nebraska

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communications Major in Nebraska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska - Lincoln landed the #2 spot on the list. UNL is a large public school situated in Lincoln, Nebraska. It awarded 3 masters’s communications degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full University of Nebraska - Lincoln Communication & Media Studies Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Media Studies in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Master’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%.

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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