2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in the New England Region

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In 2020-2021, 5,765 people earned their degree in visual communications, making the major the 154th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 168 visual communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 visual communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in visual communications. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their visual communications program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree graphic arts students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Visual Communications in the New England Region

1

Central Connecticut State University
New Britain, Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central Connecticut State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in the New England Region list. Central Connecticut State University is a medium-sized school located in New Britain, Connecticut that handed out 2 masters’s graphic arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Full CCSU Visual Communications Report

2

University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth
North Dartmouth, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in the New England Region. UMass Dartmouth is a medium-sized school located in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts that handed out 1 masters’s graphic arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Visual Communications at UMass Dartmouth

3

Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts

#20 overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northeastern University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in the New England Region. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s graphic arts degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Visual Communications at Northeastern University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Visual Communications

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.