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. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Bioethics/Medical Ethics is the 133rd most popular major in the country with 5,115 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, bioethics/medical ethics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $27,334 and had an average of $18,277 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 235 bioethics/medical ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,712 and $18,277 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 83 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 5 colleges that offer a degree in bioethics/medical ethics. That schools that top this list have a program in bioethics/medical ethics 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend St. Thomas University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast Region 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.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast Region list. Duke University is a fairly large school located in Durham, North Carolina that handed out 23 masters’s medical ethics degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.
Out of the 5 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, Emory University landed the #3 spot on the list. Emory University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Atlanta, Georgia. It awarded 7 masters’s medical ethics degrees 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read more about Bioethics/Medical Ethics at Emory University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wake Forest University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the Southeast Region list. Wake Forest University is a medium-sized school located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina that handed out 3 masters’s medical ethics degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.
Read full report on Bioethics/Medical Ethics at Wake Forest University
Out of the 5 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, Cumberland University landed the #5 spot on the list. CU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Lebanon, Tennessee. The school has a small population, and it awarded 6 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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