2022 Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,889 and $109,372 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communications (Income $30-$48k) in the New England Region

#1

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$32,341 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. UMass Amherst is a large school located in Amherst, Massachusetts that handed out 9 doctorate’s communication arts degrees in 2019-2020.

UMass Amherst also took the #1 spot in our “Best Communications Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Massachusetts Amherst are $32,341, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Communications at University of Massachusetts Amherst

#2

University of Maine

Orono, Maine

#2 in overall quality

$28,352 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Communication Arts Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #2 spot on the list. Orono, Maine is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s communication arts degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMaine, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Communications Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Maine are $28,352.

Full UMaine Communications Report

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Communications (Income $30-$48k)

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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