2024 Best Health Communication Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
3Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
10Master's Degrees
When it comes to popularity, a master's degree in health communication sits in the middle of the road, ranking #479 out of 1172 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of health communication. Combined, these schools handed out 10 master's degrees in health communication to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Health Communication School for Your Master's Degree
The health communication master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality health communication program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to health communication students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other health communication students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized health communication related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for health communication students working on their master's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Health Communication Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Health Communication in the Middle Atlantic Region
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for health communication students seeking a a master's degree.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Master's in Health Communication
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).