2024 Best Rhetoric & Composition Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
3Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
21Master's Degrees
Rhetoric & Composition is about average in terms of popularity for master's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #488 out of the 1172 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Rhetoric & Composition Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 21 master's degrees in rhetoric & composition during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Rhetoric & Composition School for Your Master's Degree
The rhetoric and composition master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality rhetoric and composition program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on rhetoric & composition students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other rhetoric & composition students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized rhetoric & composition related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for rhetoric & composition students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Rhetoric & Composition Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Rhetoric & Composition in the Middle Atlantic Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in rhetoric & composition.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Master's in Rhetoric and Composition
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).