2024 Best Value Journalism Schools in Louisiana

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Journalism Schools in Louisiana” ranking - to help you make that decision.

General Journalism is the 69th most popular major in the country with 11,380 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Louisiana, there were 54 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Journalism Schools in Louisiana” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general journalism. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general journalism programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

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

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Best Value Journalism Schools in Louisiana

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Journalism Schools in Louisiana.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for General Journalism in Louisiana

1

Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, Louisiana

#2 in overall quality

$11,304 Average Net Price

$45,053 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana Tech University. It ranked #1 on our 2024 Best Value Journalism Schools in Louisiana list. Louisiana Tech University is a fairly large public school situated in Ruston, Louisiana. It awarded 39 ’s journalism degrees in 2020-2021.

Louisiana Tech also made our “Best General Journalism Schools in Louisiana” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend Louisiana Tech is $11,304 for Louisiana Journalism students.

Read more about General Journalism at Louisiana Tech

2

Loyola University New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

#1 in overall quality

$20,463 Average Net Price

$35,993 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Loyola University New Orleans. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Journalism Schools in Louisiana. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 14 diplomas to qualified ’s journalism students in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Loyola New Orleans, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Journalism Schools in Louisiana” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Loyola University New Orleans is $20,463 for Louisiana Journalism students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Journalism at Loyola University New Orleans

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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

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