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Mass communication, Communication studies or simply 'Communication' are names that are used far more frequently than “media studies” for academic departments in the United States. However, the focus of such programs sometimes excludes certain media—film, book publishing, video games, etc. The title “media studies” may be used alone, to designate film studies and rhetorical or critical theory, or it may appear in combinations like “media studies and communication” to join two fields or emphasize a different focus. It involves the study of many emerging, contemporary media and platforms, with social media having boomed in recent years. Broadcast and cable TV is no longer the primary form of entertainment, with various screens offering worldwide events and pastimes around the clock. Proceeding are some examples of the evolution of some institutions that reside within the United States whom have taken media studies under their wing and grown with it.

In 1999, the MIT Comparative Media Studies program started under the leadership of Henry Jenkins, since growing into a graduate program, MIT's largest humanities major, and, following a 2012 merger with the Writing and Humanistic Studies program, a roster of twenty faculty, including Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz, science fiction writer Joe Haldeman, games scholar T. L. Taylor, and media scholars William Uricchio (a CMS co-founder), Edward Schiappa, and Heather Hendershot. Now named Comparative Media Studies/Writing, the department places an emphasis on what Jenkins and colleagues had termed "applied humanities": it hosts several research groups for civic media, digital humanities, games, computational media, documentary, and mobile design, and these groups are used to provide graduate students with research assistantships to cover the cost of tuition and living expenses. The incorporation of Writing and Humanistic Studies also placed MIT's Science Writing program, Writing Across the Curriculum, and Writing and Communications Center under the same roof.

Around the same time as MIT an interdisciplinary major at the University of Virginia, the Department of Media Studies was officially established in 2000 and has rapidly grown and doubled in size in 2011. This is partly thanks to the acquisition of Professor Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural historian and media scholar, as well as the Inaugural Verklin Media Policy and Ethics Conference, endowed by the CEO of Canoe Ventures and UVA alumnus David Verklin.

University of California, Irvine had professor Mark Poster who was one of the first and foremost theorists of media culture in the US who boasted a strong Department of Film & Media Studies. University of California, Berkeley has three institutional structures within media studies that take place in the department of Film and Media (formerly Film Studies Program), including famous theorists as Mary Ann Doane and Linda Williams, the Center for New Media, and a long established interdisciplinary program formerly titled Mass Communications, which recently changed its name to Media Studies. This change eliminated any connotations that may accompany the term “Mass” in the former title. Until recently, Radford University in Virginia used the title "media studies" for a department that taught practitioner-oriented major concentrations in journalism, advertising, broadcast production and Web design. In 2008, those programs were combined with a previous department of communication (speech and public relations) to create a School of Communication. (A media studies major at Radford still means someone concentrating on journalism, broadcasting, advertising or Web production.)

Brooklyn College, collaborated with City University of New York to offer graduate studies in television and media since 2015. Currently, the Department of Television and Radio administers an MS in Media Studies, and hosts the Center for the Study of World Television.

As of 2021 over 504 institutions have created a program, major, or something similar to media studies. From these 504 institutions 15% are considered the best academically equipped to teach media studies. The top 50 institutions are University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California, Cornell University, Boston University, DePauw University, University of Maryland - College Park, Northwestern University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Boston College, Villanova University, Purdue University, University of Illinois at Urbana, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, American University, Fair Field University, University of California- Santa Barbara, Northeastern University, Indiana University, University of Utah, Santa Clara University, Wake Forest University, University of California - Davis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Denver, University of Washington, Ohio State University, Loyola University Maryland, Texas A&M University, University of California - Berkley, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Texas Christian University, Marist College, University of Georgia, Arizona State University - Tempe, James Madison University, University of Delaware, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, University of Dayton, University of Colorado Boulder, Emerson College, Virginia Tech, Bryant University, University of Kansas, University at Buffalo, University of California - San Diego, University of Iowa, Saint Anselm College, Saint Mary's College, and University of South Florida.