2024 Best Speech Communication Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
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Colleges in the Southwest Region
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Doctor's Degrees
Speech Communication is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #86 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Speech Communication Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 25 doctor's degrees in speech communication to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Speech Communication School for Your Doctor's Degree
The speech communication 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. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include 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 many resources a school devotes to speech communication students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of speech communication 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 speech communication related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for speech communication students working on their doctor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
The speech communication 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 Speech Communication Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region.