Out of the 1 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Russian Studies Major in Connecticut that were part of this year’s ranking, Wesleyan University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Middletown, Connecticut, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 6 diplomas to qualified ’s Russian studies students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, 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 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.