2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Labor & Industrial Relations in the New England Region

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In 2020-2021, 1,789 people earned their degree in labor and industrial relations, making the major the 315th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 19 labor and industrial relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 labor and industrial relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Relations Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in labor and industrial relations. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their labor and industrial relations program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Relations Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Relations Major in the New England Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Labor & Industrial Relations in the New England Region

1

University of Rhode Island
Kingston, Rhode Island

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Rhode Island. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Relations Major in the New England Region. Located in Kingston, Rhode Island, this fairly large public school awarded 9 diplomas to qualified masters’s labor relations students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Labor & Industrial Relations at URI

2

University of New Haven
West Haven, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Haven. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Relations Major in the New England Region. West Haven, Connecticut is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s labor relations degrees to 0 students 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 Labor & Industrial Relations at University of New Haven

2

University of Bridgeport
Bridgeport, Connecticut

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Relations Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Bridgeport landed the #2 spot on the list. UBridgeport is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It awarded 6 masters’s labor relations degrees in 2020-2021.

Full UBridgeport Labor & Industrial Relations Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Labor & Industrial Relations

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

Footnotes

• *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.

Credits

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