2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major
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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 Master’s Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Photojournalism is the 883rd most popular major in the country with 116 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 photojournalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,979 and $43,370 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in photojournalism. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in photojournalism.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree photojournalism students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Photojournalism
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Syracuse University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major list. Syracuse is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Syracuse, New York. It awarded 12 masters’s photojournalism degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Photojournalism at Syracuse University
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major that were part of this year’s ranking, George Washington University landed the #2 spot on the list. George Washington University is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 5 masters’s photojournalism degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full GWU 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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