2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Communication & Media Studies in the New England Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Other Communication & Media Studies is the 236th most popular major in the country with 3,374 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 255 other communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 other communication and media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other communication and media studies. That schools that top this list have a program in other communication and media studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree other communication and media studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Communication & Media Studies in the New England Region

1

Emerson College
Boston, Massachusetts

Top 20% overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Emerson College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the New England Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 17 masters’s other communication and media studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.2% 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 Other Communication & Media Studies at Emerson

2

Fairfield University
Fairfield, Connecticut

Top 20% overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Fairfield University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the New England Region list. Fairfield U is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Fairfield, Connecticut. It awarded 5 masters’s other communication and media studies degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Fairfield U Other Communication & Media Studies Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Communication & Media Studies

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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