2023 Best Communication & Media Studies Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
Finding the Best Communication & Media Studies Master'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.
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Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Communication & Media Studies Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 43 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which master'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 Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for communications majors pursuing a master's degree.
Top 10 Best Communication & Media Studies Master's Degree Schools
Our 2023 rankings named Northwestern University the best school in the Great Lakes Region for communication and media studies students working on their master’s degree. Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Evanston.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Communication & Media Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Purdue is a fairly large public school located in the city of West Lafayette.
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 #3 on this year’s Best Communication & Media Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. UIUC is a fairly large public school located in the city of Champaign.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Dayton. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Communication & Media Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. UDayton is a large private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Dayton.
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The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Wisconsin - Madison helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best communication and media studies schools in the Great Lakes Region . UW - Madison is a fairly large public school located in the city of Madison.
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Ohio State University - Main Campus did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for communication and media studies students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #6 on the list. Ohio State is a fairly large public school located in the city of Columbus.
Marquette University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Communication & Media Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the city of Milwaukee, Marquette is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
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Indiana University - Bloomington did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for communication and media studies students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #8 on the list. Located in the city of Bloomington, IU Bloomington is a public school with a very large student population.
University of Wisconsin - Whitewater came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Communication & Media Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Located in the town of Whitewater, UW - Whitewater is a public college with a fairly large student population.
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Michigan State University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for communication and media studies students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #10 on the list. Located in the small city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public college with a very large student population.
Best Communication & Media Studies Colleges by State
Explore the best communication and media studies colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Michigan | 163 |
| Illinois | 270 |
| Ohio | 100 |
| Indiana | 304 |
| Wisconsin | 58 |
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Rankings in Majors Related to Communications
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 25 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).
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