2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

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In 2020-2021, 12,001 people earned their degree in communications, making the major the 67th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 1,735 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,076 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in communications. That schools that top this list have a program in communications in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region doctor’s degree communication arts students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communications in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

#5 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Cornell University landed the #1 spot on the list. Cornell is a large school located in Ithaca, New York that handed out 4 doctorate’s communication arts degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Cornell University Communications Report

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St John's University - New York
Queens, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, St John’s University - New York landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Queens, New York, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 0 degrees to qualified doctorate’s communication arts students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full STJ Communications Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for 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

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