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

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Near & Middle Eastern Studies is the 659th most popular major in the country with 411 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 33 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 12 Near and Middle Eastern studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Middle East Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in Near and Middle Eastern studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their Near and Middle Eastern studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

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

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

1

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Middle East Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Arizona is a large school located in Tucson, Arizona that handed out 7 masters’s Middle East studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read full report on Near & Middle Eastern Studies at University of Arizona

2

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#6 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Austin. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Middle East Studies Major in the Southwest Region list. UT Austin is a public institution located in Austin, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UT Austin 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

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