by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in Montana” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Area Studies is the 115th most popular major in the country with 6,966 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, area studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $33,127 and had an average of $20,927 in loans still to pay off.
Across Montana, there were 8 area studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 area studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,324 and $24,992 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in Montana” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in area studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in area studies.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in Montana” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in Montana”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in Montana that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Montana landed the #1 spot on the list. Missoula, Montana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s area studies degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montana State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Area Studies Major in Montana list. Montana State University is a fairly large public school situated in Bozeman, Montana. It awarded 3 bachelors’s area studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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