2025 Best Speech Communication Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

If you pursue a doctor's degree in speech communication, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #86 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

College Factual reviewed 5 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of speech communication. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 104 doctor's degrees in speech communication during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Speech Communication School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of speech communication for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality speech communication program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor'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 speech communication students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other speech communication students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor'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 speech communication related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for speech communication students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Speech Communication Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Speech Communication Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Speech Communication in the Southeast Region

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for speech communication students seeking a a doctor's degree.

Top Southeast Region Schools for a Doctorate in Speech Communication

1

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

9 Annual Graduates

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in speech communication. UNC Chapel Hill is a very large public university located in the city of Chapel Hill.More information about a doctorate in speech communication from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2

Liberty University
Lynchburg, VA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

17 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Liberty University if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in speech communication. Located in the city of Lynchburg, Liberty University is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in speech communication from Liberty University

3

University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

11 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat University of Southern Mississippi if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in speech communication. Located in the small city of Hattiesburg, Southern Miss is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in speech communication from University of Southern Mississippi

4

Regent University
Virginia Beach, VA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

17 Annual Graduates

Regent University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in speech communication. Regent is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Virginia Beach.More information about a doctorate in speech communication from Regent University

5

Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

14 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of Atlanta, Georgia State is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in speech communication from Georgia State University

Best Speech Communication Colleges by State

Explore the best speech communication schools for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	217	9
North Carolina	190	5
Georgia	190	9
Virginia	182	16
Mississippi	154	7
Louisiana	146	5
South Carolina	135	5
Kentucky	119	7
West Virginia	61	1

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Rankings in Majors Related to Speech Communication

One of 3 majors within the Communication & Media Studies area of study, Speech Communication has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Communication & Media Studies	47
Other Communication & Media Studies	26

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to UNU-WIDER from Helsinki, Finland. More about our data sources and methodologies.