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Best Communications Colleges in Massachusetts
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This ranking scores 23 institutions on graduation rates, graduate earnings, debt burdens, and social mobility data from Opportunity Insights. Every data point comes from federal sources. No surveys, no opinions.
Social mobility carries the heaviest weight in our algorithm. We use Raj Chetty's Mobility Report Card — built on 30 million anonymized tax records — to measure whether a college changes a family's economic trajectory across generations. Schools that take low-income students and launch them into higher earnings rank higher than schools that admit wealthy students and take credit for their success.
The transparency penalty matters here. Schools that don't report their data get scored lower than schools that do. If an institution won't show you its numbers, we think you should know that before you write them a tuition check.
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Communications programs in Massachusetts ranked by outcomes and program concentration
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Each dot is a ranked school. Up = higher earnings. Right = higher cost. Top-left is the best value.
Graduation Rates
Longer bars = higher graduation rate.
Top 3
Boston University
Boston, MA
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Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA
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Northeastern University
Boston, MA
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Boston University
Boston, MA · 18,248 students · Private nonprofit
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA · 10,085 students · Private nonprofit
Northeastern University
Boston, MA · 17,326 students · Private nonprofit
Lasell University
Newton, MA · 1,226 students · Private nonprofit
Worcester State University
Worcester, MA · 3,930 students · Public
Fitchburg State University
Fitchburg, MA · 2,752 students · Public
Bridgewater State University
Bridgewater, MA · 7,829 students · Public
Emerson College
Boston, MA · 3,870 students · Private nonprofit
Simmons University
Boston, MA · 1,670 students · Private nonprofit
Suffolk University
Boston, MA · 4,268 students · Private nonprofit
Westfield State University
Westfield, MA · 3,615 students · Public
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Boston, MA · 1,831 students · Public
Gordon College
Wenham, MA · 1,278 students · Private nonprofit
Stonehill College
Easton, MA · 2,528 students · Private nonprofit
Assumption University
Worcester, MA · 1,669 students · Private nonprofit
Curry College
Milton, MA · 1,780 students · Private nonprofit
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Amherst, MA · 23,671 students · Public
Merrimack College
North Andover, MA · 3,916 students · Private nonprofit
Endicott College
Beverly, MA · 3,125 students · Private nonprofit
Fisher College
Boston, MA · 1,167 students · Private nonprofit
Dean College
Franklin, MA · 1,089 students · Private nonprofit
Emmanuel College
Boston, MA · 1,854 students · Private nonprofit
American International College
Springfield, MA · 1,017 students · Private nonprofit
Sources & Citations
David Krug
Co-Founder, CollegeRanker
David Krug is the co-founder of CollegeRanker and a data systems architect focused on making institutional research accessible to families. He builds the data pipelines and ranking algorithms that power CollegeRanker, drawing from federal datasets and Raj Chetty's Opportunity Insights research to measure what traditional rankings ignore: whether a college actually changes a family's economic trajectory.
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