2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Spanish Language & Literature in North Carolina

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Spanish Language Major in North Carolina” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Spanish Language & Literature is the 78th most popular major in the country with 11,092 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across North Carolina, there were 278 Spanish language and literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 Spanish language and literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,453 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Spanish Language Major in North Carolina” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in Spanish language and literature. That schools that top this list have a program in Spanish language and literature in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Spanish Language Major in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Spanish Language Major in North Carolina”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Spanish Language & Literature in North Carolina

1

University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Wilmington, North Carolina

#9 overall quality in North Carolina

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Spanish Language Major in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Carolina at Wilmington landed the #1 spot on the list. University of North Carolina at Wilmington is a public institution located in Wilmington, North Carolina. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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 more about Spanish Language & Literature at UNCW

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University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte, North Carolina

#7 overall quality in North Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Charlotte. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Spanish Language Major in North Carolina list. Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, this large public school awarded 7 diplomas to qualified masters’s Spanish language students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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.

Credits

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