2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 13,552 people earned their degree in journalism, making the major the 69th most popular in the United States. 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 the Great Lakes region, there were 1,618 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,946 and $25,109 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,305 and $0 respectively.

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

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree journalism students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Journalism in the Great Lakes Region

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Ohio University - Athens Campus
Athens, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio University - Athens Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Great Lakes Region list. OHIO Athens is located in Athens, Ohio and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 doctorate’s journalism degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Journalism at OHIO Athens

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Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, Illinois

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Carbondale, Illinois, and it awarded 28 doctorate’s journalism degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Journalism at SIUC

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Journalism

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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