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 German Studies Major in Rhode Island list. Brown University is a fairly large school located in Providence, Rhode Island that handed out 5 masters’s German studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.