2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Pennsylvania
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
General Journalism is the 69th most popular major in the country with 11,380 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 463 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,136 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Pennsylvania” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general journalism. That schools that top this list have a program in general journalism in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Pennsylvania
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Pennsylvania”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Journalism in Pennsylvania
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Point Park University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Pennsylvania list. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 4 diplomas to qualified masters’s journalism students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Point Park University General Journalism Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Temple University landed the #2 spot on the list. Temple is a large school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that handed out 12 masters’s journalism degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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
- *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.
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