2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communications in the New England Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in the New England Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across the New England region, there were 1,344 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in communications. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in communications.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in the New England Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communications in the New England Region

1

University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in the New England Region list. University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public institution located in Amherst, Massachusetts. The school has a large population, and it awarded 8 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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 89%.

Full University of Massachusetts Amherst Communications Report

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University of Maine
Orono, Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maine. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Communication Arts Major in the New England Region list. University of Maine is a fairly large public school situated in Orono, Maine. It awarded 44 doctorate’s communication arts degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.0% 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%.

Read full report on Communications at UMaine

• 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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