by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gay/Lesbian Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 85 people earned their degree in gay/lesbian studies, making the major the 1230th most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 4 gay/lesbian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 gay/lesbian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gay/Lesbian Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in gay/lesbian studies. That schools that top this list have a program in gay/lesbian studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gay/Lesbian Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gay/Lesbian Studies Major in the New England Region”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gay/Lesbian Studies Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Hampshire College landed the #1 spot on the list. Amherst, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s gay/lesbian studies degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Gay/Lesbian Studies Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Harvard University landed the #2 spot on the list. Harvard is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It awarded 0 bachelors’s gay/lesbian studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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