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

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Disability Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 348 people earned their degree in disability studies, making the major the 899th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 128 disability studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 disability 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 Disability Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in disability studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their disability studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Disability Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

The Graduate Center, CUNY
New York, New York

Top 15% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The Graduate Center, CUNY. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Disability Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This medium-sized school is located in New York, New York, and it awarded 23 bachelors’s disability studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full The Graduate Center, CUNY Disability Studies Report

2

William Paterson University of New Jersey
Wayne, New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend William Paterson University of New Jersey. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Disability Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. This medium-sized school is located in Wayne, New Jersey, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s disability studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

Read full report on Disability Studies at William Paterson University of New Jersey

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Disability 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

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