2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in District of Columbia

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 District of Columbia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution is the 231st most popular major in the country with 1,175 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, peace studies and conflict resolution graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,590 and had an average of $21,045 in loans still to pay off.

Across District of Columbia, there were 95 peace studies and conflict resolution graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,100 and $11,914 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 61 peace studies and conflict resolution graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,645 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in District of Columbia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in peace studies and conflict resolution. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their peace studies and conflict resolution program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in District of Columbia

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution in District of Columbia

1

American University
Washington, District of Columbia

#3 overall quality in District of Columbia

$50,964 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in District of Columbia list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 36 diplomas to qualified masters’s conflict resolution students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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2

Georgetown University
Washington, District of Columbia

#1 overall quality in District of Columbia

$50,912 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgetown University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 25 diplomas to qualified masters’s conflict resolution students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution at Georgetown

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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.