2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Cultural Studies & Analysis in the Great Lakes Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Culture Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 405 people earned their degree in cultural studies and analysis, making the major the 300th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, cultural studies and analysis graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $29,036 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 21 cultural studies and analysis graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 cultural studies and analysis graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culture Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in cultural studies and analysis. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their cultural studies and analysis program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culture Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culture Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Cultural Studies & Analysis in the Great Lakes Region

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Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

#1 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culture Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Evanston, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s culture studies degrees to 21 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.

Full Northwestern University Cultural Studies & Analysis Report

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Trinity International University - Illinois
Deerfield, Illinois

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culture Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Trinity International University - Illinois landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Deerfield, Illinois, and it awarded 0 masters’s culture studies degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Cultural Studies & Analysis at TIU Illinois

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Cultural Studies & Analysis

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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