2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medieval Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region

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In 2020-2021, 104 people earned their degree in medieval studies, making the major the 346th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, medieval studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 27 medieval studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 medieval studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medieval Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in medieval studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their medieval studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

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

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

1

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana

#3 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Notre Dame. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medieval Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region. Notre Dame, Indiana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s medieval studies degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default 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.

Full Notre Dame Medieval Studies Report

2

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medieval Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Michigan University landed the #2 spot on the list. Kalamazoo, Michigan is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s medieval studies degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Medieval Studies at WMU

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Medieval 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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Edmund Leighton.