2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$37,900
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 318 people earned their degree in general publishing, making the major the 697th most popular in the United States.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 172 general publishing graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,979 and $43,370 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major” ranking analyzed 9 colleges that offered a degree in general publishing. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general publishing.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major”.
Top 9 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Publishing
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emerson College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major. Emerson is a medium-sized school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 42 masters’s publishing degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rosemont College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major. Located in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 6 degrees to qualified masters’s publishing students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about General Publishing at Rosemont
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pace University - New York. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major. Located in New York, New York, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 18 degrees to qualified masters’s publishing students 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 more about General Publishing at Pace University - New York
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major that were part of this year’s ranking, George Washington University landed the #4 spot on the list. This large school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 48 masters’s publishing degrees in 2021-2022.
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%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on General Publishing at George Washington University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Portland State University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major list. Portland State University is a large school located in Portland, Oregon that handed out 26 masters’s publishing degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about General Publishing at Portland State University
University of Houston - Victoria came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major ranking. University of Houston - Victoria is a small school located in Victoria, Texas that handed out 4 masters’s publishing degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full UH Victoria General Publishing Report
With a ranking of #7, New York University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major list. NYU is located in New York, New York and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 28 masters’s publishing degrees to qualified students.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, 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%.
Read more about General Publishing at New York University
Stephen F Austin State University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major ranking. Nacogdoches, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s publishing degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full Stephen F Austin State University General Publishing Report
Drexel University ranked #9 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major list. Drexel University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It awarded 0 masters’s publishing degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full Drexel University General Publishing 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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