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

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culture Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 New England region, there were 84 cultural studies and analysis graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 cultural studies and analysis graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culture Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in cultural studies and analysis. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in cultural studies and analysis.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culture Studies Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree culture studies students.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Cultural Studies & Analysis in the New England Region

1

Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, Rhode Island

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rhode Island School of Design. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culture Studies Major in the New England Region list. This small school is located in Providence, Rhode Island, and it awarded 5 masters’s culture studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

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2

Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis Inc
Brookline, Massachusetts

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culture Studies Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis Inc landed the #2 spot on the list. Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis Inc is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Brookline, Massachusetts. It awarded 1 masters’s culture studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis Cultural Studies & Analysis Report

2

Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

#3 overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harvard University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Culture Studies Major in the New England Region. This large school is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and it awarded 56 masters’s culture studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Cultural Studies & Analysis at Harvard

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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.

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