by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Texas” ranking - to help you make that decision.
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 Texas, there were 888 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,046 and $24,615 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 36 journalism graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,376 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Texas” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in journalism. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in journalism.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Texas” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for texas master’s degree journalism students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Texas. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Texas. Located in Denton, Texas, this large public school awarded 25 diplomas to qualified masters’s journalism students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #2 spot on the list. The University of Texas at Austin is a large school located in Austin, Texas that handed out 10 masters’s journalism degrees in 2020-2021.
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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Journalism Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Baylor University landed the #3 spot on the list. Baylor University is located in Waco, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s journalism degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.
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