2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications 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.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Business Communications Major in Massachusetts for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in business/corporate communications. To top this list, a school must have a successful business/corporate communications program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Business Communications Major in Massachusetts for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Business Communications Major in Massachusetts for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular 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 Most Well Attended Business Communications Major in Massachusetts for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Emerson College landed the #1 spot on the list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s business communications degrees to 1 students 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 Business/Corporate Communications Report

2

Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

#2 overall quality in Massachusetts

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Business Communications Major in Massachusetts for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Harvard University landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and it awarded 58 masters’s business communications degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

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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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