2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on TV Major in the Plains States Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$25,100
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on TV Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 6,559 people earned their degree in radio and television, making the major the 131st most popular in the United States.
Across the Plains States region, there were 60 radio and television graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 53 radio and television graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on TV Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 9 colleges that offered a degree in radio and television. That schools that top this list have a program in radio and television in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on TV Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on TV Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 9 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Radio & Television in the Plains States Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Northwestern - St Paul. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on TV Major in the Plains States Region. Northwestern is a small school located in Saint Paul, Minnesota that handed out 13 bachelors’s TV degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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 Northwestern Radio & Television Report
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on TV Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, William Penn University landed the #2 spot on the list. William Penn University is a small school located in Oskaloosa, Iowa that handed out 4 bachelors’s TV degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Radio & Television at William Penn University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Missouri. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on TV Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Warrensburg, Missouri, this fairly large public school awarded 32 degrees to qualified bachelors’s TV students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Radio & Television at UCM
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southwest Minnesota State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on TV Major in the Plains States Region list. Southwest Minnesota State University is located in Marshall, Minnesota and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s TV degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on Radio & Television at Southwest Minnesota State University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Missouri Baptist University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on TV Major in the Plains States Region. Saint Louis, Missouri is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s TV degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Radio & Television at Missouri Baptist University
Saint Ambrose University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on TV Major in the Plains States Region ranking, coming in at #6. St. Ambrose University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Davenport, Iowa. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Radio & Television at Saint Ambrose University
With a ranking of #7, Drake University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on TV Major in the Plains States Region list. Drake University is located in Des Moines, Iowa and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s TV degrees to qualified students.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
Read full report on Radio & Television at Drake University
Lindenwood University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on TV Major in the Plains States Region ranking. Lindenwood University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Saint Charles, Missouri. It awarded 1 bachelors’s TV degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Radio & Television at Lindenwood University
Northwest Missouri State University landed the #8 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on TV Major in the Plains States Region ranking. Northwest Missouri State University is located in Maryville, Missouri and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s TV degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on Radio & Television at Northwest
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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
- *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.
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