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2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Journalism in the Southwest Region

1 Ranked Colleges
5 Degrees Awarded
$38,200 Avg Cost*
Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Southwest Region

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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 the Southwest region, there were 1,758 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,691 and $23,007 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.

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

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

Top 1 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Journalism in the Southwest Region

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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 #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Journalism Major in the Southwest Region. Austin, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s journalism degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin

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