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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 4,788 people earned their degree in arts and media management, making the major the 136th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, arts and media management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $32,900 and had an average of $25,520 in loans still to pay off.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 264 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,449 and $26,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 97 arts and media management graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,136 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in Pennsylvania” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in arts and media management. That schools that top this list have a program in arts and media management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania master’s degree media management students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Carnegie Mellon University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in Pennsylvania list. Carnegie Mellon University is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 51 masters’s media management degrees to qualified students.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Drexel University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s media management degrees to 38 students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%.
Full Drexel Arts & Media Management Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania landed the #3 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 7 masters’s media management degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Arts & Media Management at Kutztown University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend York College of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Management Major in Pennsylvania. This small school is located in York, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 1 masters’s media management degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Arts & Media Management at York College of Pennsylvania
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- 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%.
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- *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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