2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Multiculturalism Major in Illinois

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Multiculturalism Major in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Multicultural & Diversity Studies is the 305th most popular major in the country with 482 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, multicultural and diversity studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $33,974 and had an average of $22,914 in loans still to pay off.

Across Illinois, there were 14 multicultural and diversity studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 multicultural and diversity studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,317 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Multiculturalism Major in Illinois” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in multicultural and diversity studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in multicultural and diversity studies.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Multiculturalism Major in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois master’s degree multiculturalism students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Multicultural & Diversity Studies in Illinois

1

Wheaton College Illinois
Wheaton, Illinois

#5 overall quality in Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wheaton College Illinois. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Multiculturalism Major in Illinois list. Wheaton, Illinois is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s multiculturalism degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Wheaton College Illinois Multicultural & Diversity Studies Report

2

DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois

#7 overall quality in Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend DePaul University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Multiculturalism Major in Illinois list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s multiculturalism degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Multicultural & Diversity Studies at DePaul

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Multicultural & Diversity Studies in the Great Lakes Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Multicultural & Diversity 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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