2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Near & Middle Eastern Studies in the Great Lakes Region

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In 2020-2021, 411 people earned their degree in Near and Middle Eastern studies, making the major the 659th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 54 Near and Middle Eastern studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 31 Near and Middle Eastern studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

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

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Middle East Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree middle east studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Near & Middle Eastern Studies in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

#2 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Chicago. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Middle East Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 28 degrees to qualified masters’s Middle East studies students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 100%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Near & Middle Eastern Studies at UChicago

2

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Michigan

#4 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Middle East Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, this large public school awarded 3 degrees to qualified masters’s Middle East studies students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.

Full U-M Near & Middle Eastern 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.