2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Communication Major in the Far Western US Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Communication Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Health Communication is the 674th most popular major in the country with 410 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 71 health communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 health communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Communication Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in health communication. That schools that top this list have a program in health communication in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Communication Major in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Communication Major in the Far Western US Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Communication in the Far Western US Region

1

Chapman University
Orange, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Chapman University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Communication Major in the Far Western US Region. Located in Orange, California, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 6 diplomas to qualified masters’s health communication students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Health Communication at Chapman

2

Washington State University
Pullman, Washington

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Washington State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Health Communication Major in the Far Western US Region list. Washington State University is a large school located in Pullman, Washington that handed out 2 masters’s health communication degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Health Communication at Washington State University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Health Communication

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.