2025 Best Sports Communication Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
68Sports Communication Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in sports communication, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #532 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Sports Communication Schools in the New England Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 68 degrees in sports communication to qualified students.
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The sports communication program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Sports Communication rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for sports communication schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Sports Communication Schools in the New England Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Turn your passion for sports into a career and a path to high-level roles in the industry with this online bachelor's from Southern New Hampshire University.
Pursue opportunities in collegiate and professional sport management organizations with the support of this well-established online master's degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
Best Schools for Sports Communication in the New England Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the sports communication degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top New England Region Schools in Sports Communication
Any student pursuing a degree in sports communication needs to look into Emerson College. Located in the large city of Boston, Emerson is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #127 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Emerson is a great college overall.
There were roughly 21 sports communication students who graduated with this degree at Emerson in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in sports communication has to look into University of Rhode Island. Located in the suburb of Kingston, URI is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 5th out of 9 colleges for overall quality in the state of Rhode Island.
There were roughly 23 sports communication students who graduated with this degree at URI in the most recent year we have data available.
Turn your passion for sports into a career and a path to high-level roles in the industry with this online bachelor's from Southern New Hampshire University.
Sacred Heart University is a great choice for students interested in a degree in sports communication. Sacred Heart is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Fairfield. This university ranks 9th out of 18 schools for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were approximately 7 sports communication students who graduated with this degree at Sacred Heart in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The sports communication program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Sports Communication rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for sports communication schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
