Publishing is about average in terms of popularity for master's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #205 out of the 343 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
College Factual looked at 5 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Publishing Master's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 213 master's degrees in publishing during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great Publishing School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of publishing for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality publishing program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master'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.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
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 publishing students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of publishing students who choose to seek a master'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.
Student Debt - How easy is it for publishing to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized publishing related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for publishing students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Publishing Master's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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New York University is a wonderful option for individuals pursuing a master's degree in publishing. NYU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of New York.
Publishing master's degree recipients from New York University receive an earnings boost of approximately $5,281 above the typical earnings of publishing majors.
George Washington University is a great decision for students interested in a master's degree in publishing. Located in the large city of Washington, GWU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.
Master's recipients from the publishing degree program at George Washington University make $15,467 more than the standard college grad in this field when they enter the workforce.
Pace University - New York is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in publishing. Pace University is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of New York.
Master's students who receive their degree from the publishing program make around $41,812 in their early career salary.
Emerson College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in publishing. Emerson is a medium-sized private not-for-profit college located in the large city of Boston.
Master's students who receive their degree from the publishing program make an average of $44,046 in their early career salary.
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).
Your choice of publishing for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality publishing program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
