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2023 Most Popular Online Communication & Media Studies Schools in the Great Lakes Region

2 Colleges
$35,036 Avg Salary
$25,485 Avg Student Debt

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Most Popular Online Communication & Media Studies Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones were the most popular online programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for communications majors pursuing an online .

#1

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

Our 2023 rankings named Michigan State University the most popular online school in the Great Lakes Region for communication and media studies students. Located in the small city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public college with a fairly large student population.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Indiana University - Kokomo is a great place for communication and media studies students pursuing an online degree. Located in the city of Kokomo, IU Kokomo is a public school with a small student population.

Full Communication & Media Studies at Indiana University - Kokomo Report

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

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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 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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