Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Folklore Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Swarthmore College landed the #1 spot on the list. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s folklore studies degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.