2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism in Idaho

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Idaho 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 Idaho, there were 694 communication and journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,423 and $22,278 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 communication and journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,135 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Communication & Journalism Major in Idaho for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communication and journalism. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular communication and journalism programs in the United States.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Communication & Journalism Major in Idaho for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Communication & Journalism Major in Idaho for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Communication & Journalism in Idaho

1

Idaho State University
Pocatello, Idaho

#6 overall quality in Idaho

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Idaho State University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Communication & Journalism Major in Idaho for a Master’s. Pocatello, Idaho is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s communication and journalism degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Communication & Journalism at ISU

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Boise State University
Boise, Idaho

#1 overall quality in Idaho

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boise State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Communication & Journalism Major in Idaho for a Master’s. Located in Boise, Idaho, this large public school handed out 4 degrees to qualified masters’s communication and journalism students 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 Boise State University

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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.