2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Montana

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Montana” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Communication & Journalism is the 11th most popular major in the country with 120,571 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, communication and journalism graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $34,266 and had an average of $24,758 in loans still to pay off.

Across Montana, there were 124 communication and journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,942 and $24,149 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 communication and journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,873 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Montana” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communication and journalism. That schools that top this list have a program in communication and journalism in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Montana

The colleges and universities below are the best for montana master’s degree communication & journalism students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism in Montana

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Montana State University - Billings
Billings, Montana

#8 overall quality in Montana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Montana State University - Billings. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Montana. Montana State University - Billings is a public institution located in Billings, Montana. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Montana State University - Billings Communication & Journalism Report

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The University of Montana
Missoula, Montana

#2 overall quality in Montana

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in Montana that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Montana landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Missoula, Montana, this fairly large public school handed out 10 degrees to qualified masters’s communication and journalism students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Communication & Journalism at The University of Montana

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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 Josh Hallett.