2025 Best Communication Sciences Schools in District of Columbia
2Colleges in District of Columbia
134Communication Sciences Degrees Awarded
$52,452Avg Early-Career Salary
Communication Sciences is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #47 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in District of Columbia to determine which ones were the best for communication sciences students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 134 degrees in communication sciences to qualified students.
The communication sciences school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Communication Sciences Schools in District of Columbia.
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Best Schools for Communication Sciences in District of Columbia
The schools below may not offer all types of communication sciences degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top District of Columbia Schools in Communication Sciences
It's hard to beat George Washington University if you want to pursue a degree in communication sciences. Located in the large city of Washington, GWU is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.
Those communication sciences students who get their degree from George Washington University earn $9,724 more than the average communication sciences graduate.
It's difficult to beat Howard University if you wish to pursue a degree in communication sciences. Howard is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Washington.
Those communication sciences students who get their degree from Howard University receive $14,332 more than the average communication sciences student.
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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