by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 1,871 people earned their degree in rhetoric and composition, making the major the 297th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 504 rhetoric and composition graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 35 rhetoric and composition graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in rhetoric and composition. That schools that top this list have a program in rhetoric and composition in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The rhetoric and composition school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southeast Region”.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree rhetoric and composition students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marshall University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southeast Region list. This fairly large school is located in Huntington, West Virginia, and it awarded 8 masters’s rhetoric and composition degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Nova Southeastern University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southeast Region. NUS Florida is a large school located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida that handed out 13 masters’s rhetoric and composition degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Liberty University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southeast Region. Lynchburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s rhetoric and composition degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Rhetoric and Composition Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Bob Jones University landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Greenville, South Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s rhetoric and composition students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
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