2023 Most Well Attended Technical and Scientific Communication Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Technical and Scientific Communication Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Technical & Scientific Communication is the 828th most popular major in the country with 217 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the New England region, there were 12 technical and scientific communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 technical and scientific communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Technical and Scientific Communication Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in technical and scientific communication. To top this list, a school must have a successful technical and scientific communication program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Technical and Scientific Communication Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree technical and scientific communication students.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Technical & Scientific Communication in the New England Region

1

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, Massachusetts

#16 overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Worcester Polytechnic Institute. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Technical and Scientific Communication Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 10 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s technical and scientific communication students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full WPI Technical & Scientific Communication Report

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Simmons University
Boston, Massachusetts

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Technical and Scientific Communication Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Simmons University landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s technical and scientific communication degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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 more about Technical & Scientific Communication at Simmons

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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 Bill Koplitz.