2023 Most Well Attended Area Studies Major in Washington for a Master’s

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In 2020-2021, 6,966 people earned their degree in area studies, making the major the 115th most popular in the United States. 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 Washington, there were 236 area studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,738 and $18,027 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 32 area studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,852 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Area Studies Major in Washington for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in area studies. To top this list, a school must have a successful area studies program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Area Studies Major in Washington for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for washington master’s degree area studies students.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Area Studies in Washington

1

University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

#1 overall quality in Washington

$34,609 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Area Studies Major in Washington for a Master’s list. UW Seattle is a large school located in Seattle, Washington that handed out 32 masters’s area studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of Washington - Seattle Campus Area Studies Report

2

Washington State University
Pullman, Washington

#3 overall quality in Washington

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washington State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Area Studies Major in Washington for a Master’s. Located in Pullman, Washington, this large public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s area studies students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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.