2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Classical & Ancient Studies in the Far Western US Region

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Classical & Ancient Studies is the 309th most popular major in the country with 275 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, classical and ancient studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $26,214 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 39 classical and ancient studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 classical and ancient studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Classics Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in classical and ancient studies. That schools that top this list have a program in classical and ancient studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Classics Major in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Classics Major in the Far Western US Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Classical & Ancient Studies in the Far Western US Region

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La Sierra University
Riverside, California

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Classics Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, La Sierra University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Riverside, California, and it awarded 0 masters’s classics degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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University of California - Berkeley
Berkeley, California

#3 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of California - Berkeley. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Classics Major in the Far Western US Region. University of California - Berkeley is located in Berkeley, California and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 masters’s classics degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Classical & Ancient Studies at UC Berkeley

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Classical & Ancient Studies

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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