If you pursue a bachelor's degree in
communication & media studies, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #5 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 127 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for communication & media studies students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 12,800 bachelor's degrees in communication & media studies to qualified students.
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The communications bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality communications program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to communication & media studies students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of communication & media studies students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Student Debt - How easy is it for communication & media studies to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized communication & media studies related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for communication & media studies students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Communication & Media Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in communication & media studies. Only those schools that rank in the top 15% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
19 Top Southeast Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Communications
Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in communication & media studies has to take a look at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. UNC Chapel Hill is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Chapel Hill.
Communication & Media Studies bachelor's degree recipients from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill get an earnings boost of around $8,247 over the typical earnings of communication & media studies graduates.
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Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in communication & media studies needs to look into University of Georgia. Located in the midsize city of Athens, UGA is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Those communication & media studies students who get their bachelor's degree from University of Georgia make $9,049 more than the typical communications grad.
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Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in communication & media studies needs to take a look at Tulane University of Louisiana. Tulane is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of New Orleans.
Bachelor's recipients from the communication & media studies degree program at Tulane University of Louisiana earn $10,292 more than the typical college grad in this field shortly after graduation.
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It's difficult to beat Wake Forest University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in communication & media studies. Wake Forest University is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Winston-Salem.
Those communication & media studies students who get their bachelor's degree from Wake Forest University receive $13,596 more than the standard communications graduate.
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JMU is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Harrisonburg.
Those communication & media studies students who get their bachelor's degree from James Madison University make $10,125 more than the typical communications student.
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