2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Advertising in the Great Lakes Region

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In 2020-2021, 4,918 people earned their degree in advertising, making the major the 149th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,126 advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 advertising graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in advertising. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in advertising.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Advertising in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois

#7 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This large school is located in Champaign, Illinois, and it awarded 11 masters’s advertising degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Advertising at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2

Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

#14 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Michigan State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Advertising Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in East Lansing, Michigan, this large public school awarded 5 diplomas to qualified masters’s advertising students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Bill Koplitz.