2024 Best Political Communication Master's Degree Schools
2Colleges in the United States
43Master's Degrees
Political Communication is about average in terms of popularity for master's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #686 out of the 1172 majors across the country that we analyze each year. 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 2 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for political communication students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 43 master's degrees in political communication to qualified students.
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to political communication students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other political communication students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
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 political communication related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for political 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 Political Communication Master's Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Political Communication in the United States
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in political communication.
Top Schools for a Master's in Political 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).