2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Broadcast Journalism in California
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Broadcast Journalism Major in California” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2021-2022, 775 people earned their degree in broadcast journalism, making the major the 457th most popular in the United States.
Across California, there were 34 broadcast journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 broadcast journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,904 and $19,503 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Broadcast Journalism Major in California” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in broadcast journalism. That schools that top this list have a program in broadcast journalism in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Broadcast Journalism Major in California
The colleges and universities below are the best for california bachelor’s degree broadcast journalism students.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Broadcast Journalism in California
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Broadcast Journalism Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, Chapman University landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Orange, California, and it awarded 25 bachelors’s broadcast journalism degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Broadcast Journalism at Chapman
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Broadcast Journalism Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern California landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Los Angeles, California, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s broadcast journalism degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full USC Broadcast Journalism Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of La Verne. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Broadcast Journalism Major in California list. University of La Verne is a private not-for-profit institution located in La Verne, California. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Broadcast Journalism at University of La Verne
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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