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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Communication & Media Studies is the 82nd most popular major in the country with 10,005 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the New England region, there were 330 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in communication & media studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in communication & media studies.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree media studies students.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Sacred Heart University landed the #1 spot on the list. Sacred Heart University is a fairly large school located in Fairfield, Connecticut that handed out 15 masters’s media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Sacred Heart
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the New England Region. Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private not-for-profit institution located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 6 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 99%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Full Massachusetts Institute of Technology Communication & Media Studies Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brown University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Media Studies Major in the New England Region. Brown is a fairly large school located in Providence, Rhode Island that handed out 29 masters’s media studies degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 98%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read full report on Communication & Media Studies at Brown
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- 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%.
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- *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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