2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Finance in the New England Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Finance is the 11th most popular major in the country with 51,779 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the New England region, there were 3,868 finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in finance. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their finance program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the New England Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Finance in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the New England Region list. Located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 5 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s finance students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Connecticut. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the New England Region. University of Connecticut is a large public school situated in Storrs, Connecticut. It awarded 2 doctorate’s finance degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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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
- *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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