2023 Best Value Communication & Media Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in Tennessee

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

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

With 90 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, communication and media studies is the #44 most popular major in Tennessee.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Communication & Media Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in Tennessee to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Tennessee to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for communications students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Communication & Media Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee

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

Best Tennessee Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Communication & Media Studies

#1

The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Knoxville, TN

6 Doctor's Degrees

#5 in Quality in Tennessee

$13,380 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named The University of Tennessee - Knoxville the best value school in Tennessee for communication and media studies students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the city of Knoxville, UT Knoxville is a public college with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UT Knoxville are $13,380 per year.

UT Knoxville also made our Best Communication & Media Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee list, coming in at #5.

Full Communication & Media Studies at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville Report

#2

University of Memphis

Memphis, TN

2 Doctor's Degrees

#18 in Quality in Tennessee

$10,908 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Memphis landed the # 2 spot on the list. UofM is a very large public school located in the city of Memphis.

UofM graduate students pay an average of $10,908 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

• 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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