If you pursue a doctor's degree in communication sciences, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #30 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Communication Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 29 doctor's degrees in communication sciences during the 2020-2021 academic year.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on communication sciences students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other communication sciences students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt communication sciences students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized communication sciences related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for communication sciences students working on their doctor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Communication Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in the New England Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Communication Sciences in the New England Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in communication sciences.
Top New England Region Schools for a Doctorate in Communication Sciences
University of Connecticut is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in communication sciences. Located in the suburb of Storrs, UCONN is a public university with a very large student population.
Students who graduate with their doctorate from the communication sciences program report average early career income of $70,837.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
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