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

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Museology/Museum Studies is the 561st most popular major in the country with 816 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 122 museology/museum studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 50 museology/museum 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 Museology/Museum Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in museology/museum studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in museology/museum studies.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museology/Museum Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Museology/Museum Studies in the Great Lakes Region

1

Western Illinois University
Macomb, Illinois

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Illinois University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museology/Museum Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region. WIU is located in Macomb, Illinois and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 12 masters’s museology/museum studies degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Museology/Museum Studies at WIU

2

Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museology/Museum Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis landed the #2 spot on the list. Indianapolis, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s museology/museum studies degrees to 18 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Museology/Museum Studies at IUPUI

3

University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Chicago. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museology/Museum Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s museology/museum studies degrees to 19 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UIC Museology/Museum Studies Report

4

Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cleveland State University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museology/Museum Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Cleveland, Ohio, this fairly large public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s museology/museum studies students in 2020-2021.

Full Cleveland State University Museology/Museum Studies Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Museology/Museum 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.