Ranked #30 in popularity, communication sciences is one of the most sought-after doctor's degree programs in the nation. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 45 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of communication sciences. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,034 doctor's degrees in communication sciences during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great Communication Sciences School for Your Doctor's Degree
The communication sciences doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality communication sciences 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
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 include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various 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 doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to communication sciences students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of communication sciences 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.
Student Debt - How easy is it for communication sciences to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized communication sciences related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for communication sciences students working on their doctor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Communication Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Northwestern University is a good choice for individuals pursuing a doctor's degree in communication sciences. Located in the small city of Evanston, Northwestern is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.
Those communication sciences students who get their doctor's degree from Northwestern University earn $4,968 more than the average communication sciences grad.
Located in the midsize city of Tempe, ASU - Tempe is a public university with a very large student population.
Doctorate recipients from the communication sciences major at Arizona State University - Tempe get $9,758 more than the standard graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
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Honorable Mentions
Here are some additional great schools for Communication Sciences students that almost earned our Best Communication Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools award.
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).
The communication sciences doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality communication sciences program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
