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

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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 North Dakota, there were 201 communication and journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,551 and $24,375 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 communication and journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,776 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in North Dakota” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in communication and journalism. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in communication and journalism.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in North Dakota”.

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

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University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

#2 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Dakota. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in North Dakota. Located in Grand Forks, North Dakota, this fairly large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s communication and journalism students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Communication & Journalism at UND

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North Dakota State University - Main Campus
Fargo, North Dakota

#1 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Dakota State University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in North Dakota list. Fargo, North Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s communication and journalism degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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%.

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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.