2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museum Studies Major in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Museum Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Museum Studies is the 275th most popular major in the country with 816 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, museum studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,570 and had an average of $20,531 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 57 museum studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 museum studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museum Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in museum studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their museum studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museum Studies Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree museum studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Museum Studies in the Southeast Region

1

Southern University at New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern University at New Orleans. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museum Studies Major in the Southeast Region. SUNO is a small school located in New Orleans, Louisiana that handed out 5 masters’s museum studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Museum Studies at SUNO

2

University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

#9 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Florida. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museum Studies Major in the Southeast Region. UF is located in Gainesville, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s museum studies degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, 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.

Read full report on Museum Studies at University of Florida

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for 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.