2022 Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Communications is the 65th most popular major in the country with 11,861 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the New England region, there were 1,379 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 127 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,606 and $42,101 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in communications. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality communications programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the communications program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 4 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communications (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region

#1

Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$57,666 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boston University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Boston U is a large school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 21 masters’s communication arts degrees in 2019-2020.

Boston U did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Communications Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Boston U are $57,666, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Communications at Boston U

#2

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

$28,352 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Orono, Maine is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s communication arts degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMaine, the school also landed the #0 spot in our “Best Communications Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Maine are $28,352, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Communications at UMaine

#3

Clark University

Worcester, Massachusetts

#2 in overall quality

$47,730 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clark University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. This small school is located in Worcester, Massachusetts, and it awarded 95 masters’s communication arts degrees in 2019-2020.

Clark also took the #2 spot in our “Best Communications Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Clark are $47,730, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Communications at Clark

#4

Regis College

Weston, Massachusetts

#3 in overall quality

$38,850 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Regis College landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Weston, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 7 degrees to qualified masters’s communication arts students in 2019-2020.

Regis College also took the #3 spot in our “Best Communications Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Regis College are $38,850, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Regis College Communications Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Communications (Income $0-$30k)

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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