Radio, Television & Digital Communication is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #45 most popular bachelor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Missouri to determine which ones were the best for radio, television & digital communication students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 49 bachelor's degrees in radio, television & digital communication during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Radio, Television & Digital Communication School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of radio, television & digital communication for getting your bachelor'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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
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 ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to radio, television & digital communication students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of radio, television & digital communication students who choose to seek a bachelor'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.
Student Debt - How easy is it for radio, television & digital communication to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized radio, television & digital communication related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for radio, television & digital communication students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Radio, Television & Digital Communication Schools
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 Radio, Television & Digital Communication Bachelor's Degree Schools in Missouri list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Featured Radio, Television & Digital Communication Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Explore the digital frontier as it relates to today's communications strategies with this specialized online bachelor's from Southern New Hampshire University.
Evangel University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in radio, television & digital communication. Evangel is a small private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Springfield.
Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the digital communication program make an average of $26,932 in their early career salary.
Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in radio, television & digital communication needs to look into University of Central Missouri. UCM is a large public university located in the town of Warrensburg.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the digital communication program state that they receive average early career income of $26,888.
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).