2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in Massachusetts

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Business/Corporate Communications is the 240th most popular major in the country with 1,029 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, business/corporate communications graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $41,185 and had an average of $26,322 in loans still to pay off.

Across Massachusetts, there were 79 business/corporate communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,922 and $25,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 business/corporate communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,084 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in Massachusetts” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in business/corporate communications. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their business/corporate communications program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in Massachusetts

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in Massachusetts”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications in Massachusetts

1

Emerson College
Boston, Massachusetts

#14 overall quality in Massachusetts

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Emerson College landed the #1 spot on the list. Emerson College is a medium-sized school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 1 masters’s business communications degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Emerson College Business/Corporate Communications Report

2

Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

#2 overall quality in Massachusetts

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Harvard University landed the #2 spot on the list. Harvard is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 58 masters’s business communications degrees to qualified students.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Business/Corporate Communications at Harvard

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications in the New England Region
• 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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