by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Georgia” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Journalism is the 69th most popular major in the country with 13,552 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, journalism graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $32,953 and had an average of $23,734 in loans still to pay off.
Across Georgia, there were 676 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,248 and $26,358 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 621 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,491 and $29,433 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Georgia” ranking analyzed 9 colleges that offered a degree in journalism. That schools that top this list have a program in journalism in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Georgia”.
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Georgia that were part of this year’s ranking, Savannah State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Savannah State University is a small school located in Savannah, Georgia that handed out 42 bachelors’s journalism degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Georgia that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia College & State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Georgia College & State University is a public institution located in Milledgeville, Georgia. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 75 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Journalism at Georgia College & State University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of West Georgia. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Georgia. This fairly large school is located in Carrollton, Georgia, and it awarded 117 bachelors’s journalism degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Journalism at University of West Georgia
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Georgia list. Atlanta, Georgia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s journalism degrees to 179 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Georgia. University of Georgia is a large school located in Athens, Georgia that handed out 126 bachelors’s journalism degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.
Kennesaw State University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Georgia ranking. KSU Georgia is located in Kennesaw, Georgia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 48 bachelors’s journalism degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Georgia Southern University landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Georgia ranking. GaSou is a large public school situated in Statesboro, Georgia. It awarded 25 bachelors’s journalism degrees in 2020-2021.
Mercer University ranked #8 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Georgia list. Mercer is a medium-sized school located in Macon, Georgia that handed out 9 bachelors’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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Fort Valley State University came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Georgia ranking. Located in Fort Valley, Georgia, this small public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s journalism students in 2020-2021.
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