2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$37,400
Avg Cost*
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Labor Studies is the 938th most popular major in the country with 171 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 52 labor studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in labor studies. That schools that top this list have a program in labor studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major”.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Labor Studies
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major that were part of this year’s ranking, The Graduate Center, CUNY landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in New York, New York, this medium-sized public school handed out 26 degrees to qualified masters’s labor studies students in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full The Graduate Center, CUNY Labor Studies Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY Empire State College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major. SUNY Empire is a public institution located in Saratoga Springs, New York. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 7 masters’s 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%.
Read more about Labor Studies at SUNY Empire
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Labor Studies Major list. Amherst, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s labor studies degrees to 19 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full University of Massachusetts Amherst Labor Studies Report
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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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