2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Communication Sciences in the New England Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Communication Sciences Schools for an Associate in the New England Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 21,991 people earned their degree in communication sciences, making the major the 48th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, communication sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $47,716 and had an average of $35,422 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 950 communication sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,825 and $39,401 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 15 communication sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,753 and $14,559 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great communication sciences programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the communication sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Communication Sciences Schools for an Associate in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Communication Sciences Schools for an Associate in the New England Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Communication Sciences in the New England Region

#1

Granite State College

Concord, New Hampshire

#1 in overall quality

$12,507 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Granite State College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Communication Sciences Schools for an Associate in the New England Region list. Concord, New Hampshire is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s communication sciences degrees to 15 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at GSC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Communication Sciences Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. It costs about $12,507 for New England Region Associate Degree Communication Sciences students per year to attend GSC.

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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