2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Philosophy & Religious Studies in the New England Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Philosophy & Religion Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 184 people earned their degree in philosophy and religious studies, making the major the 320th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, philosophy and religious studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 8 philosophy and religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 philosophy and religious studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in philosophy and religious studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in philosophy and religious studies.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree philosophy & religion students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Philosophy & Religious Studies in the New England Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Yale University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in New Haven, Connecticut, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 4 degrees to qualified masters’s philosophy and religion students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. 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 more about General Philosophy & Religious Studies at Yale University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Philosophy & Religion Major in the New England Region list. Cambridge, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s philosophy and religion degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
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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
- *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.
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