2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the New England Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2021-2022, 3,287 people earned their degree in other communication & media studies, making the major the 236th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 236 other communication & media studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 other 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 Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other communication & media studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in other communication & media studies.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Communication & Media Studies 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 Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the New England Region list. Emerson is a private not-for-profit institution located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 23 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Other Communication & Media Studies at Emerson

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Fairfield University
Fairfield, Connecticut

Top 25% overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Fairfield University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Communication and Media Studies Major in the New England Region. Fairfield U is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Fairfield, Connecticut. It awarded 3 masters’s other communication and media studies degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.2% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.

Full Fairfield University Other Communication & Media Studies Report

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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