Best Journalism Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the United States

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the United States that made our Best Journalism Doctor's Degree Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Journalism School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of journalism for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on journalism students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other journalism students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt journalism students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized journalism related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for journalism students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the United States

Sad to say, we did not have adequate info to form a ranking of the top quality schools for journalism in the United States. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer journalism and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

Journalism by Region

View the Best Journalism Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Rankings in Majors Related to Journalism

One of 5 majors within the Communication & Journalism area of study, Journalism has other similar majors worth exploring.

Journalism Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Journalism	14

Majors Similar to Journalism

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Communication & Media Studies	573
Radio, Television & Digital Communication	57
Public Relations & Advertising	36
Communication & Journalism (Other)	5

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jfurrer. More about our data sources and methodologies.