2024 Best Health Communication Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
4Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
78Master's Degrees
Health Communication isn't the most popular master's program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #479 in popularity out of 1172 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for health communication students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 78 master's degrees in health communication during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Health Communication School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of health communication for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on health communication students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of health communication students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized health communication related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for health communication students working on their master's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Health Communication Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Health Communication in the Great Lakes Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in health communication.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Master's in Health Communication
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).