2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Journalism in the Middle Atlantic Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
General Journalism is the 69th most popular major in the country with 10,697 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 1,485 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,902 and $128,547 respectively.
The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general journalism program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region doctor’s degree journalism students.
Top 1 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Journalism in the Middle Atlantic Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland - College Park landed the #1 spot on the list. UMCP is located in College Park, Maryland and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 1 doctorate’s journalism degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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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