2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Individualized Studies is the 38th most popular major in the country with 37,634 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 8,119 individualized studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 individualized studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,076 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in individualized studies. That schools that top this list have a program in individualized studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Individualized Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

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University of Maryland - Baltimore County
Baltimore, Maryland

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maryland - Baltimore County. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in Baltimore, Maryland, this fairly large public school awarded 10 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s individualized studies students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Individualized Studies at UMBC

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Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

#3 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johns Hopkins University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Individualized Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Johns Hopkins University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Baltimore, Maryland. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Johns Hopkins Individualized Studies Report

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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.