You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brown University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on United States Studies Major in Rhode Island list. Brown is located in Providence, Rhode Island and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 masters’s United States studies degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.