If you're seeking a Master's Degree in audiovisual communications, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #244 one in the country in terms of popularity.As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for audiovisual communications students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 44 master's degrees in audiovisual communications to qualified students.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on audiovisual communications students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other audiovisual communications 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.
Student Debt - How much debt audiovisual communications students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized audiovisual communications related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for audiovisual communications students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Audiovisual Communications Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Audiovisual Communications Master's Degree Schools in New York list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Featured Audiovisual Communications Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Effective communicators are always in demand, no matter the industry. The Master's in Communication degree from Southern New Hampshire University is a cutting-edge program designed for forward-thinking professionals.
New York Institute of Technology is a great option for students pursuing a master's degree in audiovisual communications. Located in the large suburb of Old Westbury, NYIT is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.
Students who graduate with their master's from the audiovisual program state that they receive average early career earnings of $51,063.
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).
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