Best Communication & Media Studies Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that made our Best Communication & Media Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Communication & Media Studies School for Your Doctor's Degree

The media studies doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on communication & media studies students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of communication & media studies students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized communication & media studies related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for communication & media studies students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Middle Atlantic Region

As a result of missing data, we could not show you the communication & media studies quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that both offer communication & media studies and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

Instead, take a look at at some of our other Communication & Media Studies rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Communication & Media Studies ranking.

Best Communication & Media Studies Colleges by State

Explore the best communication & media studies schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	366	3
Pennsylvania	311	19
District of Columbia	143	4

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Rankings in Majors Related to Media Studies

One of 3 majors within the Communication & Media Studies area of study, Communication & Media Studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Majors Related to Media Studies

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Speech Communication	31
Other Communication & Media Studies	22
Communications	6

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland. More about our data sources and methodologies.