2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Norwegian Language & Literature

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Norwegian Language & Literature is the 1349th most popular major in the country with 11 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 Norwegian language and literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Norwegian Language and Literature Major” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in Norwegian language and literature. That schools that top this list have a program in Norwegian language and literature in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Norwegian Language and Literature Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree norwegian language and literature students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Norwegian Language & Literature

1

St Olaf College
Northfield, Minnesota

Top 15% overall quality in United States

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Norwegian Language and Literature Major that were part of this year’s ranking, St Olaf College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Northfield, Minnesota, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 5 degrees to qualified bachelors’s Norwegian language and literature students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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%.

Read more about Norwegian Language & Literature at St. Olaf

2

University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

Top 5% overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Norwegian Language and Literature Major list. University of Washington - Seattle Campus is a large public school situated in Seattle, Washington. It awarded 2 bachelors’s Norwegian language and literature degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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%.

Read full report on Norwegian Language & Literature at University of Washington - Seattle Campus

3

Augsburg University
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Norwegian Language and Literature Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Augsburg University landed the #3 spot on the list. Augsburg is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It awarded 0 bachelors’s Norwegian language and literature degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Augsburg University Norwegian Language & Literature Report

3

University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

Top 20% overall quality in United States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Dakota. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Norwegian Language and Literature Major. Grand Forks, North Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s Norwegian language and literature degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

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 of North Dakota Norwegian Language & Literature Report

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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