Best Philosophy Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Southeast Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Southeast Region that made our Best Philosophy Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Philosophy School for Your Doctor's Degree

The philosophy 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

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good 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.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on philosophy students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of philosophy students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• 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 philosophy 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 philosophy related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for philosophy students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Southeast Region

Unfortunately , we don't have adequate facts to form a ranking of the quality schools for philosophy in the Southeast Region . This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Southeast Region that both offer philosophy and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

As an alternative, check out at some of our other Philosophy rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Philosophy ranking.

Best Philosophy Colleges by State

Explore the best philosophy colleges for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	138	15
Virginia	127	1
Georgia	126	11
North Carolina	115	28
Mississippi	113	0
Louisiana	103	6
Tennessee	102	10
South Carolina	91	2
Kentucky	87	4
Arkansas	58	0

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Philosophy Related Rankings by Major

Philosophy is one of 3 different types of Philosophy & Religious Studies programs to choose from.

Philosophy Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Philosophy	56
Other Philosophy	12
Applied & Professional Ethics	4

Majors Similar to Philosophy

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Religious Studies	63
General Philosophy & Religious Studies	2

Notes and References

• 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.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.