2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communication Sciences in the New England Region

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Communication Sciences is the 47th most popular major in the country with 22,298 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, communication sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $47,173 and had an average of $22,255 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 1,074 communication sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,124 and $24,732 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 16 communication sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,618 and $16,599 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication Sciences Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communication sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in communication sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication Sciences Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication Sciences Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communication Sciences in the New England Region

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Granite State College
Concord, New Hampshire

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication Sciences Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Granite State College landed the #1 spot on the list. Granite State College is a small school located in Concord, New Hampshire that handed out 13 associates’s communication sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Granite State College Communication Sciences Report

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Elms College
Chicopee, Massachusetts

Top 15% overall quality in New England

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication Sciences Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Elms College landed the #2 spot on the list. Elms College is located in Chicopee, Massachusetts and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 associates’s communication sciences degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Communication Sciences at Elms College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communication Sciences

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.

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