2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Ethics in the Southeast Region

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Ethics is the 934th most popular major in the country with 150 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 19 ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in ethics. That schools that top this list have a program in ethics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Ethics in the Southeast Region

1

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Wake Forest, North Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethics Major in the Southeast Region list. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Wake Forest, North Carolina. It awarded 4 masters’s ethics degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Ethics at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

2

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte, North Carolina

Top 25% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethics Major in the Southeast Region. This large school is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, and it awarded 6 masters’s ethics degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Ethics at University of North Carolina at Charlotte

3

University of North Florida
Jacksonville, Florida

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Florida landed the #3 spot on the list. Jacksonville, Florida is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s ethics degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Ethics at University of North Florida

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Ethics

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.