2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities in New Hampshire

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in New Hampshire” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 3rd of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 556,813 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $28,337 and had an average of $17,430 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Hampshire, there were 2,654 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,727 and $19,923 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,663 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in New Hampshire” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in liberal arts / sciences and humanities. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their liberal arts / sciences and humanities program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in New Hampshire

The colleges and universities below are the best for new hampshire master’s degree liberal arts / sciences & humanities students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities in New Hampshire

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Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire

#1 overall quality in New Hampshire

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Dartmouth College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in New Hampshire. Dartmouth is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Hanover, New Hampshire. It awarded 24 masters’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees in 2020-2021.

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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

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University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, New Hampshire

#2 overall quality in New Hampshire

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in New Hampshire list. Located in Durham, New Hampshire, this fairly large public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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.

Credits

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