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2023 Best Value Communication & Journalism Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$39,910 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$57,555 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Communication & Journalism Graduate Certificate School for You

Communication & Journalism is the #17 most popular major in the country with 12,242 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Communication & Journalism Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in the New England Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for communication and journalism students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Communication & Journalism Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Communication & Journalism Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Communication & Journalism

Our 2023 rankings named University of Rhode Island the best value school in the New England Region for communication and journalism students working on their graduate certificate. URI is a large public school located in the large suburb of Kingston.

URI graduate students pay an average of $29,774 in tuition and fees each year.

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#2

Bryant University

Smithfield, RI

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bryant University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Communication & Journalism Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the suburb of Smithfield, Bryant is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

Bryant graduate students pay an average of $47,720 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Communication & Journalism at Bryant University

Out of the 3 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the # 3 spot on the list. UCONN is a very large public school located in the suburb of Storrs.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UCONN are $42,237 a year.

Read full report on Communication & Journalism at University of Connecticut

Best Communication & Journalism Colleges by State

Explore the best communication and journalism colleges for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 819
Rhode Island 33
Connecticut 167
New Hampshire 187
Maine 25
Vermont 5

Communication & Journalism Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Communication & Media Studies 5,059
Public Relations & Advertising 2,828
Radio, Television & Digital Communication 2,562
Journalism 1,238
Communication & Journalism (Other) 341
Publishing 214

Related Major Annual Graduates
Education 199,724
Psychology 42,013
Social Sciences 22,292
Library Science 5,929
History 4,391

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Josh Hallett.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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