2022 Best Value Advertising Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Advertising Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking.

Advertising is the 138th most popular major in the country with 4,751 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,109 advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Advertising Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in advertising. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent advertising programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the advertising program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Advertising Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree advertising students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Advertising in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Champaign, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$30,083 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Advertising Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Champaign, Illinois, and it awarded 12 masters’s advertising degrees in 2019-2020.

UIUC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Advertising Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UIUC are $30,083, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full UIUC Advertising Report

#2

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan

$37,056 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Advertising Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan State University landed the #2 spot on the list. East Lansing, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s advertising degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

Michigan State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Advertising Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Michigan State University are $37,056, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Advertising at Michigan State

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Advertising (With Aid)

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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