2022 Best Value Journalism Schools for a Master’s in Texas

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 “Best Value Journalism Schools for a Master’s in Texas” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Journalism is the 62nd most popular major in the country with 14,528 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, journalism graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $31,042 and had an average of $24,628 in loans still to pay off.

Across Texas, there were 885 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,730 and $22,496 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 30 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Journalism Schools for a Master’s in Texas” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in journalism. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great journalism programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the 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 for a Master’s in Texas

The colleges and universities below are the best for texas master’s degree journalism students.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Journalism in Texas

#1

University of North Texas

Denton, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$15,618 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$39,369 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Texas. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Journalism Schools for a Master’s in Texas list. UNT is a large school located in Denton, Texas that handed out 21 masters’s journalism degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UNT, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Journalism Master’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of North Texas are $15,618, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full UNT Journalism Report

#2

The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$22,886 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at Austin. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Journalism Schools for a Master’s in Texas. UT Austin is a large school located in Austin, Texas that handed out 6 masters’s journalism degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UT Austin, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Journalism Master’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UT Austin are $22,886, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin

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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.

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