2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism in South Dakota

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 South Dakota” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 120,571 people earned their degree in communication and journalism, making the major the 11th most popular in the United States. 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 South Dakota, there were 213 communication and journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,759 and $26,083 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 23 communication and journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,795 and $0 respectively.

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

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The communication & journalism school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in South Dakota”.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

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

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

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

1

South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

#1 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Dakota State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in South Dakota list. Brookings, South Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s communication and journalism degrees to 19 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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%.

Read full report on Communication & Journalism at South Dakota State

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University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota

#5 overall quality in South Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of South Dakota. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Communication & Journalism Major in South Dakota list. USD is a medium-sized school located in Vermillion, South Dakota that handed out 4 masters’s communication and journalism degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full USD Communication & Journalism Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism

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.