2024 Best Rhetoric & Composition Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
2Colleges in the Southeast Region
13Doctor's Degrees
Rhetoric & Composition is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #172 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.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for rhetoric & composition students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 13 doctor's degrees in rhetoric & composition during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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 complete 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.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Rhetoric & Composition Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Rhetoric & Composition in the Southeast Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in rhetoric & composition.
Top Southeast Region Schools for a Doctorate in Rhetoric and Composition
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).