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2023 Best Communication & Media Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

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Finding the Best Communication & Media Studies Doctor's Degree School for You

Communication & Media Studies is the #47 most popular major in the country with 5,059 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Communication & Media Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 14 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best educational experiences for students. To come up with a school's ranking, we analyzed numerous factors related to post-graduation wages, the quality of education offered by the school, average accumulated student debt, and more.

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2023 Best Communication & Media Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Communication & Media Studies Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Top 10 Best Communication & Media Studies Doctor's Degree Schools

#1

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

Our 2023 rankings named Northwestern University the best school in the Great Lakes Region for communication and media studies students working on their doctor’s degree. Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Evanston.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Communication & Media Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. U-M is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Ann Arbor.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Wisconsin - Madison is a great place for communication and media studies students working on their doctor’s degree. UW - Madison is a very large public school located in the large city of Madison.

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#4

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, IN

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Purdue University - Main Campus helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best communication and media studies schools in the Great Lakes Region . Purdue is a fairly large public school located in the small city of West Lafayette.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Communication & Media Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. UIUC is a very large public school located in the city of Champaign.

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#6

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

Michigan State University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Communication & Media Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the small city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public college with a very large student population.

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Ohio State University - Main Campus landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best doctor’s degree communication and media studies programs. Ohio State is a very large public school located in the large city of Columbus.

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University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee ranked #8 on this year’s Best Communication & Media Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. UWM is a very large public school located in the city of Milwaukee.

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Ohio University - Athens Campus landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best doctor’s degree communication and media studies programs. OHIO Athens is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Athens.

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With a ranking of #10, Bowling Green State University - Main Campus did quite well on this year’s best schools for communication and media studies students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the fringe town of Bowling Green, BGSU is a public school with a large student population.

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Best Communication & Media Studies Colleges by State

Explore the best communication and media studies schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 163
Illinois 270
Ohio 100
Indiana 304
Wisconsin 58

One of 5 majors within the area of study, communication and media studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Communications

Related Major Annual Graduates
Public Relations & Advertising 2,828
Radio, Television & Digital Communication 2,562
Journalism 1,238
Communication & Journalism (Other) 341
Publishing 214

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 14 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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 the rest 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland.

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