2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications in the Middle Atlantic Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 1,027 people earned their degree in business/corporate communications, making the major the 439th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 476 business/corporate communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 30 business/corporate communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in business/corporate communications. That schools that top this list have a program in business/corporate communications in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree business communications students.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Baruch College
New York, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baruch College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Baruch is located in New York, New York and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 25 masters’s business communications degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Baruch College Business/Corporate Communications Report

2

Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Top 20% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Duquesne University landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 3 masters’s business communications degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Business/Corporate Communications at Duquesne

3

Wilmington University
New Castle, Delaware

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wilmington University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in New Castle, Delaware, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s business communications students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Business/Corporate Communications at Wilmington University

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Saint Peter's University
Jersey City, New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Peter’s University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Saint Peter’s College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Jersey City, New Jersey. It awarded 0 masters’s business communications degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Business/Corporate Communications at Saint Peter’s College

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

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