2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Digital Communication Major in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Digital Communication Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 17,669 people earned their degree in radio, television and digital communication, making the major the 61st most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, radio, television and digital communication graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,775 and had an average of $24,244 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 3,708 radio, television and digital communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,945 and $23,562 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 radio, television and digital communication graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Digital Communication Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in radio, television and digital communication. That schools that top this list have a program in radio, television and digital communication in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Digital Communication Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree digital communication students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Radio, Television & Digital Communication in the Southeast Region

1

Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

#1 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Duke University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Digital Communication Major in the Southeast Region. Duke University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Durham, North Carolina. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, 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. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Radio, Television & Digital Communication at Duke University

2

Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus
Atlanta, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Digital Communication Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s digital communication degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Radio, Television & Digital Communication at Georgia Tech

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Radio, Television & Digital Communication

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.

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