2024 Best Humanities Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
3Colleges in the Southeast Region
18Doctor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in humanities, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #238 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Humanities Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 18 doctor's degrees in humanities during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Humanities School for Your Doctor's Degree
The humanities doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on humanities students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of humanities students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized humanities related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for humanities students working on their doctor's degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Humanities Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Humanities in the Southeast Region
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for humanities students seeking a a doctor's degree.
Top Southeast Region Schools for a Doctorate in Humanities
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.