by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 336 people earned their degree in publishing, making the major the 299th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, publishing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $43,066 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 173 publishing graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,561 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 132 publishing graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in publishing. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their publishing program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree publishing students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rosemont College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Rosemont is located in Rosemont, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 masters’s publishing degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pace University - New York. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. New York, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s publishing degrees to 38 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.8% 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 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, George Washington University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 59 degrees to qualified masters’s publishing students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New York University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This large school is located in New York, New York, and it awarded 29 masters’s publishing degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. 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. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Publishing Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Drexel University landed the #5 spot on the list. Drexel is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s publishing 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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