If you're seeking a degree in publishing, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #299 one in the country in terms of popularity.As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 8 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for publishing students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 318 degrees in publishing to qualified students.
Your choice of publishing school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Publishing School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
The publishing school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Publishing Schools.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the publishing degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is difficult to beat Brigham Young University - Provo if you want to pursue a degree in publishing. Located in the medium-sized city of Provo, BYU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 11 colleges for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were roughly 52 publishing students who graduated with this degree at BYU in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in publishing has to look into New York University. NYU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York. A Best Colleges rank of #16 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means NYU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 28 publishing students who graduated with this degree at NYU in the most recent data year. Those publishing students who get their degree from New York University make $9,576 more than the standard publishing graduate.
George Washington University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in publishing. Located in the large city of Washington, GWU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #25 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means GWU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 48 publishing students who graduated with this degree at GWU in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the publishing program at George Washington University make $19,762 above the average graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
It is hard to beat Susquehanna University if you wish to pursue a degree in publishing. Susquehanna is a small private not-for-profit university located in the town of Selinsgrove. This university ranks 55th out of 103 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were about 19 publishing students who graduated with this degree at Susquehanna in the most recent year we have data available.
Pace University is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York. This university ranks 34th out of 136 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 20 publishing students who graduated with this degree at Pace University in the most recent data year. Those publishing students who get their degree from Pace University - New York make $2,755 more than the typical publishing graduate.
Emerson is a medium-sized private not-for-profit college located in the large city of Boston. A Best Colleges rank of #127 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Emerson is a great college overall.
There were about 42 publishing students who graduated with this degree at Emerson in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the publishing program at Emerson College get $4,989 more than the typical college graduate in this field shortly after graduation.
Located in the large city of Nashville, Belmont is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #237 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Belmont is a great university overall.
There were roughly 12 publishing students who graduated with this degree at Belmont in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the large city of Portland, Portland State University is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 5th out of 29 schools for overall quality in the state of Oregon.
There were roughly 26 publishing students who graduated with this degree at Portland State University in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the publishing program state that they receive average early career income of $23,449.
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).
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Your choice of publishing school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Publishing School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
