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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Sports Communication is the 532nd most popular major in the country with 729 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 144 sports communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 sports communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in sports communication. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their sports communication program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

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

1

Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, Indiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Valparaiso University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Valpo is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Valparaiso, Indiana. It awarded 1 masters’s sports communication degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Sports Communication at Valparaiso University

2

Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sports Communication Major in the Great Lakes Region. Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis is a large public school situated in Indianapolis, Indiana. It awarded 4 masters’s sports communication degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis Sports Communication Report

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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.