2024 Best Folklore Studies Master's Degree Schools
3Colleges in the United States
30Master's Degrees
If you're seeking a Master's Degree in folklore studies, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #747 one in the country in terms of popularity.This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Folklore Studies Master's Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 30 master's degrees in folklore studies to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Folklore Studies School for Your Master's Degree
The folklore studies master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality folklore studies program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on folklore studies students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other folklore studies students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized folklore studies related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for folklore studies students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Folklore Studies Master's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Folklore Studies in the United States
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).