2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communications in Pennsylvania

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across Pennsylvania, there were 393 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent communications programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the communications program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania

The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania master’s degree communication arts students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communications in Pennsylvania

#1

La Salle University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$26,250 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend La Salle University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania. This small school is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 11 masters’s communication arts degrees in 2019-2020.

La Salle not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Communications Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at La Salle University are $26,250, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Communications at La Salle

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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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