2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Folklore Studies Major in the Far Western US Region

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Folklore Studies is the 1138th most popular major in the country with 44 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 9 folklore studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 folklore studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Folklore Studies Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in folklore studies. That schools that top this list have a program in folklore 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 Folklore Studies Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree folklore studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Folklore Studies in the Far Western US Region

1

University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Oregon. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Folklore Studies Major in the Far Western US Region list. Eugene, Oregon is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s folklore studies degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Oregon Folklore Studies Report

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University of California - Berkeley
Berkeley, California

#3 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Berkeley. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Folklore Studies Major in the Far Western US Region list. This large school is located in Berkeley, California, and it awarded 3 masters’s folklore studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Folklore Studies at University of California - Berkeley

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Folklore 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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