2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Speech Communication in Florida

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Speech Communication Major in Florida” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Speech Communication is the 18th most popular major in the country with 41,146 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Florida, there were 1,536 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 $69,244 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Speech Communication Major in Florida” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in speech communication. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their speech communication program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Speech Communication Major in Florida”.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Speech Communication Major in Florida

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

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Speech Communication in Florida

1

University of South Florida - Main Campus
Tampa, Florida

#6 overall quality in Florida

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Speech Communication Major in Florida that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Florida - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. University of South Florida - Main Campus is a large school located in Tampa, Florida that handed out 7 doctorate’s speech communication degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Speech Communication at USF Tampa

2

University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida

#2 overall quality in Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Miami. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Speech Communication Major in Florida list. Located in Coral Gables, Florida, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified doctorate’s speech communication students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Speech Communication at University of Miami

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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

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