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Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota

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2023 Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota

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

In 2020-2021, 22 degrees and certificates were awarded to communication and media studies students who went to a South Dakota college or university. This makes it the #33 most popular major in the state.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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.

The Most Popular Communication & Media Studies Master's Degree Schools in South Dakota ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in South Dakota to see which master's degree programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Communication & Media Studies program at each school on the list.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for communications majors pursuing a master's degree.

Our 2023 rankings named South Dakota State University the most popular school in South Dakota for communication and media studies students working on their master’s degree. South Dakota State is a large public school located in the remote town of Brookings.

About 94% of the students majoring in communications at the school are women while 6% are male.

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#2

University of South Dakota

Vermillion, SD

The in-demand master’s degree programs at University of South Dakota helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular communication and media studies schools in South Dakota. Located in the town of Vermillion, USD is a public school with a medium-sized student population.

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Best Communication & Media Studies Colleges in the Plains States Region

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State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 73
Minnesota 70
Iowa 53
Kansas 40
Nebraska 12
North Dakota 11

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

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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