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2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for International/Globalization Studies in the Great Lakes Region

1 Ranked Colleges

29 Degrees Awarded

$38,100 Avg Cost*

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 Global Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 7,368 people earned their degree in international/globalization studies, making the major the 112th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 868 international/globalization studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 29 international/globalization studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their international/globalization studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree global studies students.

Top 1 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for International/Globalization Studies in the Great Lakes Region

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana

#3 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Notre Dame. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Notre Dame is a private not-for-profit institution located in Notre Dame, Indiana. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 29 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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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%.

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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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