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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Middle East Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 “Most Well Attended Middle East Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in Near and Middle Eastern studies. To top this list, a school must have a successful Near and Middle Eastern studies program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Middle East Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s

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

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

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University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

#2 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Chicago. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Middle East Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s. UChicago is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 28 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 100%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Near & Middle Eastern Studies at University of Chicago

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University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Michigan

#4 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Middle East Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor is a large public school situated in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It awarded 3 masters’s Middle East studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Near & Middle Eastern Studies at U-M

• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Near & Middle Eastern 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

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