2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for English Language & Literature in West Virginia

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 English Language & Literature Major in West Virginia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

English Language & Literature is the 18th most popular major in the country with 54,635 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, English language and literature graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,352 and had an average of $23,972 in loans still to pay off.

Across West Virginia, there were 288 English language and literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,438 and $29,634 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 32 English language and literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,814 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on English Language & Literature Major in West Virginia” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in English language and literature. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their English language and literature program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on English Language & Literature Major in West Virginia

The colleges and universities below are the best for west virginia master’s degree english language & literature students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for English Language & Literature in West Virginia

1

Marshall University
Huntington, West Virginia

#5 overall quality in West Virginia

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on English Language & Literature Major in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Marshall University landed the #1 spot on the list. Marshall University is a public institution located in Huntington, West Virginia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 17 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

West Virginia Wesleyan College
Buckhannon, West Virginia

#6 overall quality in West Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend West Virginia Wesleyan College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on English Language & Literature Major in West Virginia list. Located in Buckhannon, West Virginia, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified masters’s English language and literature students in 2020-2021.

Read more about English Language & Literature at West Virginia Wesleyan College

3

West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia

#2 overall quality in West Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend West Virginia University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on English Language & Literature Major in West Virginia list. West Virginia University is a public institution located in Morgantown, West Virginia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 14 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about English Language & Literature at WVU

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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

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.

Credits

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