2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Russian Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

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In 2020-2021, 166 people earned their degree in Russian studies, making the major the 878th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 37 Russian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 Russian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Russian Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in Russian studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in Russian studies.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Russian Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Russian Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Russian Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

New York University
New York, New York

#9 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New York University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Russian Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. NYU is a large school located in New York, New York that handed out 1 masters’s Russian studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full NYU Russian Studies Report

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Hunter College
New York, New York

Top 20% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hunter College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Russian Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. New York, New York is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s Russian studies degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Russian Studies at Hunter College

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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.