2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications in the New England Region

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In 2021-2022, 897 people earned their degree in business/corporate communications, making the major the 240th most popular in the United States. In , business/corporate communications graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $40,723 and had an average of $22,686 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 113 business/corporate communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,922 and $23,250 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 business/corporate communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in business/corporate communications. That schools that top this list have a program in business/corporate communications in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the New England Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Business/Corporate Communications in the New England Region

1

Emerson College
Boston, Massachusetts

Top 25% overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Emerson College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the New England Region list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s business communications degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. 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 Business/Corporate Communications at Emerson College

2

Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

#3 overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Business Communications Major in the New England Region list. Cambridge, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s business communications degrees to 73 students in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Business/Corporate Communications at Harvard

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

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