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

1 Ranked Colleges
5 Degrees Awarded
$38,200 Avg Cost*
Most Well Attended Journalism Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate

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 “Most Well Attended Journalism Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 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.

This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in journalism.

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Most Well Attended Journalism Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate

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

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Out of the 1 schools in the Most Well Attended Journalism Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Austin, Texas, this large public school awarded 5 degrees to qualified doctorate’s journalism students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national 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.

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