2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, & Group Studies, Other in the Middle Atlantic Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Ethnic Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, & Group Studies, Other is the 402nd most popular major in the country with 2,142 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 145 other ethnic studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 other ethnic studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Ethnic Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in other ethnic studies. That schools that top this list have a program in other ethnic studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree other ethnic studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, & Group Studies, Other in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Touro College
New York, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Ethnic Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Touro College landed the #1 spot on the list. Touro is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in New York, New York. It awarded 0 masters’s other ethnic studies degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, & Group Studies, Other at Touro College

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University at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York

Top 25% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Ethnic Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University at Buffalo landed the #1 spot on the list. University at Buffalo is a public institution located in Buffalo, New York. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees 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 low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full University at Buffalo Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, & Group Studies, Other Report

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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.

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