2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Literature Major in the Far Western US Region

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Literature is the 264th most popular major in the country with 683 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, literature graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $26,788 and had an average of $26,372 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 51 literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Literature Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in literature. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their literature program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Literature Major in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Literature Major in the Far Western US Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Literature in the Far Western US Region

1

Mills College
Oakland, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mills College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Literature Major in the Far Western US Region. Mills College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Oakland, California. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% 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 more about Literature at Mills

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Central Washington University
Ellensburg, Washington

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Literature Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Central Washington University landed the #2 spot on the list. CWU is a fairly large public school situated in Ellensburg, Washington. It awarded 3 masters’s literature degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Literature at CWU

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Literature

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.