2024 Best Communications Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts
3Colleges in Massachusetts
127Master's Degrees
If you plan on getting your master's degree in communications, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #184 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Massachusetts to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of communications. Combined, these schools handed out 127 master's degrees in communications to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Communications School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of communications for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on communications students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of communications students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized communications related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for communications students working on their master'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 Communications Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Communications in Massachusetts
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in communications.
Top Massachusetts Schools for a Master's in Communication Arts
Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in communications has to take a look at Boston University. Located in the city of Boston, Boston U is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a master’s in communications from Boston University
It is hard to beat Clark University if you wish to pursue a master's degree in communications. Located in the medium-sized city of Worcester, Clark is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a master’s in communications from Clark University
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).