2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Visual Communications in the Middle Atlantic Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Visual Communications is the 154th most popular major in the country with 6,039 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 794 visual communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 visual communications graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,902 and $128,547 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in visual communications. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their visual communications program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Visual Communications in the Middle Atlantic Region

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University of Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Baltimore landed the #1 spot on the list. UB is a small public school situated in Baltimore, Maryland. It awarded 0 doctorate’s graphic arts degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UB Visual Communications Report

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Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#2 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Carnegie Mellon University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Graphic Arts Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s graphic arts degrees to 4 students in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.1% 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Visual Communications at Carnegie Mellon University

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.