by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Public Relations is the 138th most popular major in the country with 5,039 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the New England region, there were 358 public relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 106 public relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in public relations. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in public relations.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree pr students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Suffolk University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in the New England Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 14 masters’s pr degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sacred Heart University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in the New England Region list. Sacred Heart is a fairly large school located in Fairfield, Connecticut that handed out 1 masters’s pr degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boston University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in the New England Region. Boston University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Boston, Massachusetts. It awarded 55 masters’s pr degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western New England University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on PR Major in the New England Region. Western New England is a small school located in Springfield, Massachusetts that handed out 0 masters’s pr degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.
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