2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Plains States Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Journalism is the 69th most popular major in the country with 10,697 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Plains States region, there were 1,224 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,238 and $112,293 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general journalism. That schools that top this list have a program in general journalism in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Journalism in the Plains States Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Missouri - Columbia. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Plains States Region list. Mizzou is a large public school situated in Columbia, Missouri. It awarded 9 doctorate’s journalism degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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 more about General Journalism at Mizzou
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Iowa. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Plains States Region. Iowa City, Iowa is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s journalism degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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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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