by our College Data Analytics Team
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 “Most Well Attended Journalism Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Journalism is the 69th most popular major in the country with 11,380 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 1,291 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 63 general journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Journalism Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general journalism. To top this list, a school must have a successful general journalism program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Journalism Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Texas. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Journalism Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. This large school is located in Denton, Texas, and it awarded 25 masters’s journalism degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about General Journalism at University of North Texas
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Journalism Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s. University of Oklahoma Norman Campus is a large public school situated in Norman, Oklahoma. It awarded 16 masters’s journalism 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on General Journalism at University of Oklahoma
Out of the 5 schools in the Most Well Attended Journalism Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Arizona is a large school located in Tucson, Arizona that handed out 11 masters’s journalism degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on General Journalism at University of Arizona
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Austin. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Journalism Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. This large school is located in Austin, Texas, and it awarded 10 masters’s journalism degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, 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 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baylor University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Journalism Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. Waco, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s journalism degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, 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 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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