2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Iranian & Persian Major

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Iranian & Persian Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Iranian & Persian Languages is the 382nd most popular major in the country with 4 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, Iranian and Persian languages graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 Iranian and Persian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,260 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Iranian & Persian Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in Iranian and Persian languages. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their Iranian and Persian languages program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Iranian & Persian Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Iranian & Persian Major”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Iranian & Persian Languages

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University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Iranian & Persian Major list. University of Arizona is a large school located in Tucson, Arizona that handed out 0 doctorate’s Iranian and Persian degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Iranian & Persian Languages at University of Arizona

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University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Utah. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Iranian & Persian Major. U of U is a large public school situated in Salt Lake City, Utah. It awarded 0 doctorate’s Iranian and Persian degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full U of U Iranian & Persian Languages 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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