2025 Best Communication & Media Studies Schools in Connecticut
3Colleges in Connecticut
118Media Studies Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in communication & media studies, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #82 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Connecticut to determine which ones were the best for communication & media studies students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 118 degrees in communication & media studies annually.
Choosing a Great Communication & Media Studies School
Your choice of communication & media studies school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Communication & Media Studies School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Pick Your Communication & Media Studies Degree Level
The media studies school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Communication & Media Studies Schools in Connecticut.
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Best Schools for Communication & Media Studies in Connecticut
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the media studies degrees they offer, see the list below.
Any student who is interested in communication & media studies has to look into Quinnipiac University. Quinnipiac is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Hamden. A Best Colleges rank of #162 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Quinnipiac is a great university overall.
There were about 61 communication & media studies students who graduated with this degree at Quinnipiac in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Sacred Heart University if you want to pursue a degree in communication & media studies. Located in the suburb of Fairfield, Sacred Heart is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. This university ranks 9th out of 18 colleges for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were about 15 communication & media studies students who graduated with this degree at Sacred Heart in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in communication & media studies needs to check out Central Connecticut State University. CCSU is a moderately-sized public university located in the large suburb of New Britain. This university ranks 14th out of 18 schools for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were about 26 communication & media studies students who graduated with this degree at CCSU in the most recent data year.
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 communication & media studies school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Communication & Media Studies School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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