2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Investments and Securities in the Southeast Region
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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 “Most Well Attended Investments and Securities Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 346 people earned their degree in investments and securities, making the major the 869th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 34 investments and securities graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 investments and securities graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Investments and Securities Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in investments and securities. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in investments and securities.
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Most Well Attended Investments and Securities Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree investments and securities students.
Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Investments and Securities in the Southeast Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Investments and Securities Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Carolina at Wilmington landed the #1 spot on the list. UNCW is a public institution located in Wilmington, North Carolina. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 10 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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%.
Read full report on Investments and Securities at UNCW
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Gardner - Webb University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Investments and Securities Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s. Gardner - Webb University is a small school located in Boiling Springs, North Carolina that handed out 2 masters’s investments and securities degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% 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%.
Read full report on Investments and Securities at Gardner - Webb
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Investments and Securities Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Vanderbilt University landed the #2 spot on the list. Vanderbilt University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Nashville, Tennessee. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Investments and Securities at Vanderbilt
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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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