2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Journalism in West Virginia

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Journalism Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 14,528 people earned their degree in journalism, making the major the 62nd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, journalism graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $31,042 and had an average of $24,628 in loans still to pay off.

Across West Virginia, there were 235 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,550 and $25,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent journalism programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the journalism program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Journalism Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Journalism Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best for west virginia master’s degree journalism students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Journalism in West Virginia

#1

West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$26,154 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Journalism Schools for a Master’s in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, West Virginia University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Morgantown, West Virginia, and it awarded 9 masters’s journalism degrees in 2019-2020.

WVU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Journalism Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at West Virginia University are $26,154, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Journalism at West Virginia 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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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