by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major” ranking.
Labor Studies is the 938th most popular major in the country with 171 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 61 labor studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major” ranking looked at 11 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in labor studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their labor studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Connecticut State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major list. Willimantic, Connecticut is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s labor studies degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - Los Angeles. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major. University of California - Los Angeles is a large school located in Los Angeles, California that handed out 28 bachelors’s labor studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% 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%.
Out of the 11 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major that were part of this year’s ranking, San Francisco State University landed the #3 spot on the list. San Francisco State University is a large school located in San Francisco, California that handed out 12 bachelors’s labor studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Northwest. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major list. This small school is located in Gary, Indiana, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s labor studies degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Queens College. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major. Queens, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s labor studies degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% 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%.
California State University - Dominguez Hills landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major ranking. CSUDH is a public institution located in Carson, California. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major ranking, coming in at #7. This large school is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s labor studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Indiana University - Bloomington landed the #8 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major ranking. IU Bloomington is a large school located in Bloomington, Indiana that handed out 2 bachelors’s labor studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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The Graduate Center, CUNY landed the #9 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major ranking. Located in New York, New York, this medium-sized public school handed out 46 degrees to qualified bachelors’s labor studies students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
With a ranking of #9, Hofstra University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major list. Hofstra is located in Hempstead, New York and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s labor studies degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%.
Indiana University - South Bend came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major ranking. South Bend, Indiana is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s labor studies degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
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