2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Literature in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Literature Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Great Lakes region, there were 33 literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Literature Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in literature. That schools that top this list have a program in literature in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The literature school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Literature Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Literature Major in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Literature in the Great Lakes Region

1

Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Literature Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Michigan University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Ypsilanti, Michigan, this fairly large public school awarded 9 degrees to qualified masters’s literature students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Literature at Eastern Michigan University

2

Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant, Michigan

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Literature Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Central Michigan University landed the #2 spot on the list. Central Michigan is a fairly large school located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan that handed out 5 masters’s literature degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Central Michigan Literature Report

• 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.