2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts in the Southeast Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Liberal Arts is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 2nd of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 366,996 degrees were awarded to students with this major.
Across the Southeast region, there were 119,958 liberal arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 liberal arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in liberal arts. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in liberal arts.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts in the Southeast Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory University landed the #1 spot on the list. Emory University is located in Atlanta, Georgia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 doctorate’s liberal studies degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.
Full Emory University Liberal Arts Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Memphis. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Memphis, Tennessee, this large public school handed out 101 degrees to qualified doctorate’s liberal studies students in 2020-2021.
Full University of Memphis Liberal Arts Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the Southeast Region. Mississippi State is a large school located in Mississippi State, Mississippi that handed out 2 doctorate’s liberal studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Liberal Arts at Mississippi State University
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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.
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