by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Bioethics/Medical Ethics is the 574th most popular major in the country with 663 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 97 bioethics/medical ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 31 bioethics/medical ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in bioethics/medical ethics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in bioethics/medical ethics.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast Region”.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, St. Thomas University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Miami Gardens, Florida, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 7 degrees to qualified masters’s medical ethics students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Duke University landed the #2 spot on the list. Duke University is located in Durham, North Carolina and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 masters’s medical ethics degrees to qualified students.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast Region. Atlanta, Georgia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s medical ethics degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wake Forest University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast Region. This medium-sized school is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and it awarded 3 masters’s medical ethics degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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