2025 Best General English Literature Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
General English Literature is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #33 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 12 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General English Literature Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 255 doctor's degrees in general english literature during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great General English Literature School for Your Doctor's Degree
The english doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality english program can vary widely even among the top schools. 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 quality 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 many resources a school devotes to general english literature students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other general english literature 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 general english literature 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 general english literature related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general english literature students working on their doctor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General English Literature Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
