2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Deaf Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Deaf Studies is the 728th most popular major in the country with 297 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 56 deaf studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 36 deaf studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Deaf Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in deaf studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in deaf studies.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Deaf Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree deaf studies students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Deaf Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Gallaudet University
Washington, District of Columbia

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Deaf Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Gallaudet University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 16 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s deaf studies students in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Deaf Studies at Gallaudet

2

University of Valley Forge
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Valley Forge. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Deaf Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. University of Valley Forge is located in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s deaf studies degrees to qualified students.

Full University of Valley Forge Deaf Studies Report

3

Towson University
Towson, Maryland

Top 20% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Towson University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Deaf Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Towson is a large public school situated in Towson, Maryland. It awarded 18 bachelors’s deaf studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Deaf Studies at Towson University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Deaf 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.

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