2022 Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region

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Communications is the 65th most popular major in the country with 11,861 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the New England region, there were 1,379 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,889 and $109,372 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality communications programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the communications program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communications in the New England Region

#1

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$32,341 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region list. UMass Amherst is a large school located in Amherst, Massachusetts that handed out 9 doctorate’s communication arts degrees in 2019-2020.

UMass Amherst did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Communications Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Massachusetts Amherst are $32,341, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Communications at UMass Amherst

#2

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$28,352 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region list. University of Maine is located in Orono, Maine and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 doctorate’s communication arts degrees to qualified students.

UMaine not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Communications Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Maine are $28,352, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full University of Maine Communications Report

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland.

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