2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Journalism in the Great Lakes Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Journalism Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 11,380 people earned their degree in general journalism, making the major the 69th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,518 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,305 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general journalism. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general journalism.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree journalism students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Journalism in the Great Lakes Region

1

Ohio University - Athens Campus
Athens, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio University - Athens Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Great Lakes Region list. OHIO Athens is a public institution located in Athens, Ohio. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full OHIO Athens General Journalism Report

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Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, Illinois

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Carbondale, Illinois, this fairly large public school awarded 28 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s journalism students in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Journalism at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Journalism

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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