2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major
9
Ranked Colleges
172
Degrees Awarded
$43,066
Avg Salary
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Publishing is the 299th most popular major in the country with 318 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , publishing graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $43,066 and had an average of $51,690 in loans still to pay off.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 172 publishing graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,979 and $43,370 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major” ranking, we looked at 9 colleges that offer a degree in publishing. That schools that top this list have a program in publishing in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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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 Publishing
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Emerson College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major list. This medium-sized school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 42 masters’s publishing degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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. Rosemont, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s publishing degrees to 6 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pace University - New York. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major list. Pace University is located in New York, New York and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 18 masters’s publishing degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend George Washington University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s publishing degrees to 48 students 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Portland State University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major. Portland State University is a public institution located in Portland, Oregon. The school has a large population, and it awarded 26 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Portland State University Publishing Report
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. UH Victoria is located in Victoria, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 4 masters’s publishing degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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New York University ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major list. NYU is a large school located in New York, New York that handed out 28 masters’s publishing degrees in 2021-2022.
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. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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Stephen F Austin State University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major ranking, coming in at #8. Located in Nacogdoches, Texas, this fairly large public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s publishing students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Stephen F Austin State University Publishing Report
Drexel University ranked #9 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major list. This large school is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 0 masters’s publishing degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, 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. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
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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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