2023 Most Focused Colleges for Photojournalism in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 144 people earned their degree in photojournalism, making the major the 883rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 17 photojournalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in photojournalism. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their photojournalism program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Photojournalism in the Southwest Region

1

University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

$39,113 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,041 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Oklahoma. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major in the Southwest Region list. UCO is a fairly large school located in Edmond, Oklahoma that handed out 16 ’s photojournalism degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Photojournalism at UCO

2

South Plains College
Levelland, Texas

$32,859 Average Early-Career Earnings

$12,181 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Plains College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Photojournalism Major in the Southwest Region list. South Plains College is a medium-sized public school situated in Levelland, Texas. It awarded 1 ’s photojournalism degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Photojournalism at South Plains College

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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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