2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Speech Communication in Kentucky

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Speech Communication Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Speech Communication is the 17th most popular major in the country with 41,970 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Kentucky, there were 768 speech communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 speech communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,800 and $117,458 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality speech communication programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the speech communication program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Speech Communication Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Speech Communication Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky

The colleges and universities below are the best for kentucky doctor’s degree speech communication students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Speech Communication in Kentucky

#1

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$33,216 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Speech Communication Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky list. Lexington, Kentucky is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s speech communication degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

UK also took the #1 spot in our “Best Speech Communication Doctor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UK are $33,216.

Read full report on Speech Communication at University of Kentucky

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland.

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