2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Multiculturalism Major in the New England Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 the New England Region” 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 the New England region, there were 29 multicultural and diversity studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,343 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 multicultural and diversity studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Multiculturalism Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Multiculturalism Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Multicultural & Diversity Studies in the New England Region

1

Lesley University
Cambridge, Massachusetts

$49,343 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lesley University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Multiculturalism Major in the New England Region list. Lesley University is a small school located in Cambridge, Massachusetts that handed out 14 masters’s multiculturalism degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. 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.

Full Lesley University Multicultural & Diversity Studies Report

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Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts

#9 overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tufts University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Multiculturalism Major in the New England Region. Tufts is a private not-for-profit institution located in Medford, Massachusetts. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 10 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

Read more about Multicultural & Diversity Studies at Tufts

• 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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Dillon White.