2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Journalism in West Virginia

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In 2020-2021, 13,552 people earned their degree in journalism, making the major the 69th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, journalism graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $32,953 and had an average of $23,734 in loans still to pay off.

Across West Virginia, there were 211 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,505 and $24,584 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,814 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in West Virginia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in journalism. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their journalism program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in West Virginia

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Journalism in West Virginia

1

West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia

#2 overall quality in West Virginia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, West Virginia University landed the #1 spot on the list. WVU is a large school located in Morgantown, West Virginia that handed out 6 masters’s journalism degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Marshall University
Huntington, West Virginia

#5 overall quality in West Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marshall University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in West Virginia list. This fairly large school is located in Huntington, West Virginia, and it awarded 1 masters’s journalism degrees in 2020-2021.

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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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