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2023 Best Value Journalism Schools in Tennessee

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$10,056 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$29,256 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Journalism School for You

With 11 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, journalism is the #125 most popular major in Tennessee.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Journalism Schools in Tennessee to help you in your search for the best school for you.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Check out the journalism programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Journalism School

#1

University of Memphis

Memphis, TN
$10,056 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Memphis to be the best value school for journalism students who want to pursue a degree in Tennessee. Located in the city of Memphis, UofM is a public school with a very large student population.

UofM undergraduate students pay an average of $10,056 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Journalism at University of Memphis

Best Value Journalism Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Journalism Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 7
Florida 75
Georgia 55
Alabama 20
South Carolina 21
Mississippi 5
Arkansas 21
West Virginia 7

Journalism is one of 5 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Journalism

Related Major Annual Graduates
Communication & Media Studies 5,059
Public Relations & Advertising 2,828
Radio, Television & Digital Communication 2,562
Communication & Journalism (Other) 341
Publishing 214

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

  • 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Jfurrer.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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