2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communications in New York

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Communications is the 67th most popular major in the country with 12,001 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across New York, there were 1,106 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 $77,733 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in New York” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 New York

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in New York”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communications in New York

1

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

#1 overall quality in New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cornell University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in New York. Cornell is a private not-for-profit institution located in Ithaca, New York. The school has a large population, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. 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%. 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.

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

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend St John’s University - New York. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in New York list. STJ is located in Queens, New York and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 doctorate’s communication arts degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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• 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

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