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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution is the 410th most popular major in the country with 1,175 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 143 peace studies and conflict resolution graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 peace studies and conflict resolution graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in peace studies and conflict resolution. That schools that top this list have a program in peace studies and conflict resolution in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in the Great Lakes Region. This large school is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and it awarded 13 masters’s conflict resolution degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution at UWM

2

Ohio University - Athens Campus
Athens, Ohio

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio University - Athens Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Ohio University - Athens Campus is a large public school situated in Athens, Ohio. It awarded 1 masters’s conflict resolution degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution at OHIO Athens

3

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana

#3 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Notre Dame. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in the Great Lakes Region list. University of Notre Dame is a private not-for-profit institution located in Notre Dame, Indiana. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 17 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of Notre Dame Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution Report

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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.