2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Southwest Region
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In 2021-2022, 12,911 people earned their degree in journalism, making the major the 69th most popular in the United States. In , journalism graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $32,980 and had an average of $23,933 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 1,605 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,691 and $21,664 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,912 and $102,180 respectively.
This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in journalism.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree journalism students.
Top 1 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Journalism in the Southwest Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Austin, Texas, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s journalism degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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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