2023 Most Well Attended Communication & Journalism Major in Nevada for a Master’s
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Ranked Colleges
30
Degrees Awarded
$31,100
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Communication & Journalism Major in Nevada for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Nevada, there were 523 communication and journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,592 and $28,919 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 30 communication and journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,876 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Communication & Journalism Major in Nevada for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in communication and journalism. To top this list, a school must have a successful communication and journalism program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Well Attended Communication & Journalism Major in Nevada for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for nevada master’s degree communication & journalism students.
Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism in Nevada
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Communication & Journalism Major in Nevada for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nevada - Reno landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Nevada - Reno is a public institution located in Reno, Nevada. The school has a large population, and it awarded 19 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Communication & Journalism at UNR
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Communication & Journalism Major in Nevada for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nevada - Las Vegas landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Nevada - Las Vegas is a large school located in Las Vegas, Nevada that handed out 11 masters’s communication and journalism degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.9% 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%.
Read full report on Communication & Journalism at UNLV
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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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