2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Latin American and Caribbean Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Latin American & Caribbean Studies is the 995th most popular major in the country with 104 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 32 Latin American and Caribbean studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 Latin American and Caribbean studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Latin American and Caribbean Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in Latin American and Caribbean studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in Latin American and Caribbean studies.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Latin American and Caribbean Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree latin american and caribbean studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Latin American & Caribbean Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

New York University
New York, New York

#9 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New York University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Latin American and Caribbean Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. New York University is a private not-for-profit institution located in New York, New York. The school has a large population, and it awarded 10 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Latin American & Caribbean Studies at New York University

2

University at Albany
Albany, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University at Albany. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Latin American and Caribbean Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. UAlbany is a public institution located in Albany, New York. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University at Albany Latin American & Caribbean Studies Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Latin American & Caribbean Studies

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.