$57,592
Grouped estimate · Medium evidence.
Related subjects at 10 matched peer institutions · master's
Historical archive, not a current salary estimate.
Communications & media
Radio, Television, and Digital Communication
Columbia University in the City of New York · New York, NY
Medium evidenceMatched peers10 institutions · related subjectsSee the evidence
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Related subjects at 10 matched peer institutions · master's
Grouped estimate. Middle half of comparison values: $52,019–$71,301.
Historical earnings archive. College Scorecard legacy FOS archive (file dated 2022-01-19; cohorts vary). Do not interpret this as today's graduate salary. Further study and career changes are not modelled by this early-career figure.
| Institution & subject | Reported earnings |
|---|---|
| Stanford UniversityCommunication and Media Studies | $81,702 |
| Vanderbilt UniversityCommunication Disorders Sciences and Services | $48,823 |
| Northwestern UniversityCommunication Disorders Sciences and Services, Communication and Media Studies, Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, Other, Journalism, Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication | $74,953 |
| Northeastern UniversityCommunication Disorders Sciences and Services, Communication and Media Studies | $56,512 |
| Johns Hopkins UniversityCommunication and Media Studies | $65,387 |
| Tufts UniversityPublic Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication | $58,673 |
| New York UniversityCommunication Disorders Sciences and Services, Communication and Media Studies, Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs, Other, Publishing, Radio, Television, and Digital Communication | $52,107 |
| University of Southern CaliforniaCommunication and Media Studies, Journalism, Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication | $46,673 |
| Georgetown UniversityPublic Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication | $73,272 |
| Boston UniversityCommunication Disorders Sciences and Services, Journalism, Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication, Radio, Television, and Digital Communication | $51,990 |
How matching & uncertainty work
We first look for the same subject code (or exact subject name), qualification, country, currency, source release and earnings horizon. Peer institutions are matched using admissions selectivity, completion rates, undergraduate size and institution type, with a small preference for the same region. These are institutional proxies, not a ranking of programme quality.
If subject-matched peers are sparse, we try related subjects at closely matched universities, related degrees at this university, then an explicitly labelled national reference. We never multiply a salary by a university prestige score.
Peer and national estimates give each reporting institution one vote, after taking the median of its related programmes. Shared branch-campus outcomes count once. The middle-half range describes variation between reporting institutions. It is not an individual salary range or a statistical confidence interval.
Evidence labels describe match quality and coverage, not validated prediction accuracy. Admissions and size are undergraduate institutional measures, so graduate-degree comparisons are especially approximate.
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