2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Scandinavian Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region

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Scandinavian Studies is the 1252nd most popular major in the country with 24 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 11 Scandinavian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 Scandinavian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Scandinavian Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in Scandinavian studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their Scandinavian studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Scandinavian Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Scandinavian Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Scandinavian Studies in the Great Lakes Region

1

North Park University
Chicago, Illinois

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Park University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Scandinavian Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s Scandinavian studies students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 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 Scandinavian Studies at North Park

2

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

#6 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Scandinavian Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Madison landed the #2 spot on the list. Madison, Wisconsin is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s Scandinavian studies degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Wisconsin - Madison Scandinavian Studies Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Scandinavian 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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Karl Udo Gerth.