2023 Most Well Attended Speech Communication Major in Mississippi for a Master’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Speech Communication Major in Mississippi for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Speech Communication is the 18th most popular major in the country with 41,146 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Mississippi, there were 228 speech communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 speech communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,248 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Speech Communication Major in Mississippi for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in speech communication. To top this list, a school must have a successful speech communication program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Speech Communication Major in Mississippi for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Speech Communication Major in Mississippi for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Speech Communication in Mississippi

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University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

#5 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Mississippi. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Speech Communication Major in Mississippi for a Master’s list. University of Southern Mississippi is a public institution located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Southern Miss Speech Communication Report

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Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

#1 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Speech Communication Major in Mississippi for a Master’s. This large school is located in Mississippi State, Mississippi, and it awarded 163 masters’s speech communication degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Speech Communication at Mississippi State University

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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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