2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major in the Southeast 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2021-2022, 116 people earned their degree in photojournalism, making the major the 883rd most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 8 photojournalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 photojournalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in photojournalism. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their photojournalism program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Photojournalism in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Barton College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major in the Southeast Region list. Barton College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Wilson, North Carolina. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Photojournalism at Barton College
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Kentucky University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major in the Southeast Region. Western Kentucky University is a fairly large school located in Bowling Green, Kentucky that handed out 8 bachelors’s photojournalism degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Photojournalism at WKU
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oakwood University landed the #3 spot on the list. Oakwood is a private not-for-profit institution located in Huntsville, Alabama. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Oakwood University Photojournalism Report
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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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