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Best Communications Colleges in Wisconsin
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This ranking scores 16 institutions on graduation rates, graduate earnings, debt burdens, and social mobility data from Opportunity Insights. Every data point comes from federal sources. No surveys, no opinions.
Social mobility carries the heaviest weight in our algorithm. We use Raj Chetty's Mobility Report Card — built on 30 million anonymized tax records — to measure whether a college changes a family's economic trajectory across generations. Schools that take low-income students and launch them into higher earnings rank higher than schools that admit wealthy students and take credit for their success.
The transparency penalty matters here. Schools that don't report their data get scored lower than schools that do. If an institution won't show you its numbers, we think you should know that before you write them a tuition check.
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Communications programs in Wisconsin ranked by outcomes and program concentration
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Each dot is a ranked school. Up = higher earnings. Right = higher cost. Top-left is the best value.
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Longer bars = higher graduation rate.
Top 3
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
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Ripon College
Ripon, WI
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Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI · 7,660 students · Private nonprofit
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI · 36,902 students · Public
Ripon College
Ripon, WI · 688 students · Private nonprofit
Saint Norbert College
De Pere, WI · 1,662 students · Private nonprofit
Maranatha Baptist University
Watertown, WI · 541 students · Private nonprofit
Wisconsin Lutheran College
Milwaukee, WI · 943 students · Private nonprofit
Mount Mary University
Milwaukee, WI · 631 students · Private nonprofit
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Whitewater, WI · 9,405 students · Public
University of Wisconsin-River Falls
River Falls, WI · 4,205 students · Public
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI · 6,877 students · Public
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI · 8,895 students · Public
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
La Crosse, WI · 9,277 students · Public
University of Wisconsin-Superior
Superior, WI · 1,807 students · Public
University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Kenosha, WI · 2,844 students · Public
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI · 16,758 students · Public
Concordia University-Wisconsin
Mequon, WI · 2,197 students · Private nonprofit
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David Krug
Co-Founder, CollegeRanker
David Krug is the co-founder of CollegeRanker and a data systems architect focused on making institutional research accessible to families. He builds the data pipelines and ranking algorithms that power CollegeRanker, drawing from federal datasets and Raj Chetty's Opportunity Insights research to measure what traditional rankings ignore: whether a college actually changes a family's economic trajectory.
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