Journalism is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #69 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Journalism Schools in West Virginia ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 191 degrees in journalism during the 2021-2022 academic year.
The journalism school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Journalism Schools in West Virginia.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the journalism degree levels they offer.
Every student pursuing a degree in journalism has to take a look at West Virginia University. WVU is a very large public university located in the city of Morgantown.
Journalism degree recipients from West Virginia University receive an earnings boost of approximately $2,940 over the average earnings of journalism majors.
It is hard to beat Marshall University if you wish to pursue a degree in journalism. Marshall University is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Huntington.
After graduation, journalism degree recipients typically make around $27,565 at the beginning of their careers.
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).
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