by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Humanities Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Humanities is the 37th most popular major in the country with 22,314 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,097 humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 162 humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Humanities Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in humanities. That schools that top this list have a program in humanities in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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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 Humanities Major in the Great Lakes Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree humanities students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tiffin University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Humanities Major in the Great Lakes Region. Tiffin University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Tiffin, Ohio. It awarded 31 masters’s humanities degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Chicago. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Humanities Major in the Great Lakes Region. University of Chicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 125 masters’s humanities degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% 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%.
Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Humanities Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, John Carroll University landed the #3 spot on the list. John Carroll is a private not-for-profit institution located in University Heights, Ohio. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Humanities Major in the Great Lakes Region. Ohio State is a large public school situated in Columbus, Ohio. It awarded 3 masters’s humanities degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Humanities Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Illinois Institute of Technology landed the #5 spot on the list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s humanities degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central Michigan University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Humanities Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Mount Pleasant, Michigan is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s humanities degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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