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2023 Most Focused Colleges for Humanities in District of Columbia

1 Ranked Colleges

3 Degrees Awarded

$36,700 Avg Cost*

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 Highly Focused on Humanities Major in District of Columbia” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 22,314 people earned their degree in humanities, making the major the 37th most popular in the United States.

Across District of Columbia, there were 3 humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in humanities.

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Schools Highly Focused on Humanities Major in District of Columbia

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia humanities students.

Top 1 Most Focused Colleges for Humanities in District of Columbia

Georgetown University
Washington, District of Columbia

#1 overall quality in District of Columbia

$69,885 Average Early-Career Earnings

$16,394 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgetown University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Humanities Major in District of Columbia list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 3 degrees to qualified ’s humanities students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, 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 94%.

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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.

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