2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Professional, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing Major in the Southeast Region

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In 2021-2022, 3,129 people earned their degree in professional, technical, business, & scientific writing, making the major the 383rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,819 professional, technical, business, & scientific writing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 professional, technical, business, & scientific writing graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,674 and $121,130 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Professional, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in professional, technical, business, & scientific writing. That schools that top this list have a program in professional, technical, business, & scientific writing in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Professional, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree professional, technical, business, and scientific writing students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Professional, Technical, Business, & Scientific Writing in the Southeast Region

1

University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Florida. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Professional, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Orlando, Florida, and it awarded 15 doctorate’s professional, technical, business, and scientific writing degrees in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Professional, Technical, Business, & Scientific Writing at UCF

2

East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Professional, Technical, Business, and Scientific Writing Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, East Carolina University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Greenville, North Carolina, this large public school handed out 2 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s professional, technical, business, and scientific writing students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.

Read full report on Professional, Technical, Business, & Scientific Writing at ECU

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

Footnotes

• *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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