2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Central & Eastern European Studies Major in New York

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Central & Eastern European Studies is the 1041st most popular major in the country with 77 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across New York, there were 5 Central and Eastern European studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 Central and Eastern European studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,555 and $23,635 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Central & Eastern European Studies Major in New York” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in Central and Eastern European studies. That schools that top this list have a program in Central and Eastern European studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Central & Eastern European Studies Major in New York

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Central & Eastern European Studies Major in New York”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Central & Eastern European Studies in New York

1

Colgate University
Hamilton, New York

#4 overall quality in New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colgate University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Central & Eastern European Studies Major in New York list. Hamilton, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s Central and Eastern European studies degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Central & Eastern European Studies at Colgate

2

Union College New York
Schenectady, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Central & Eastern European Studies Major in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, Union College New York landed the #2 spot on the list. Union College New York is a small school located in Schenectady, New York that handed out 1 bachelors’s Central and Eastern European studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 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 1.4% 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Union College New York Central & Eastern European Studies Report

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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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Karl Udo Gerth.