2024 Best Rhetoric & Composition Doctor's Degree Schools
18
Colleges in the United States
83
Doctor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in
rhetoric & composition, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #172 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 18 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Rhetoric & Composition Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 83 doctor's degrees in rhetoric & composition during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Rhetoric & Composition School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of rhetoric & composition for getting your doctor's degree school matters. 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 include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host 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 many resources a school devotes to rhetoric & composition students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other rhetoric & composition students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
- 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 rhetoric & composition related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for rhetoric & composition 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 Rhetoric & Composition Doctor's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.