2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public/Applied History in the Great Lakes Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public/Applied History Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 229 people earned their degree in public/applied history, making the major the 828th most popular in the United States.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 27 public/applied history graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 public/applied history graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public/Applied History Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in public/applied history. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their public/applied history 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Public/Applied History Major in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree public/applied history students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Public/Applied History in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Loyola University Chicago. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public/Applied History Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Loyola Chicago is a fairly large school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 9 masters’s public/applied history degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Loyola Chicago Public/Applied History Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wayne State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public/Applied History Major in the Great Lakes Region. Wayne State University is a public institution located in Detroit, Michigan. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Public/Applied History at Wayne State University
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Public/Applied History Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Michigan University landed the #3 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and it awarded 2 masters’s public/applied history degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Public/Applied History at WMU
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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
- *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.