2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Buddhist Studies

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In 2020-2021, 2 people earned their degree in Buddhist studies, making the major the 1458th most popular in the United States.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 Buddhist studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Buddhist Studies Major” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in Buddhist studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in Buddhist studies.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Buddhist Studies Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Buddhist Studies Major”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Buddhist Studies

1

Institute of Buddhist Studies
Berkeley, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Institute of Buddhist Studies. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Buddhist Studies Major. Institute of Buddhist Studies is a small school located in Berkeley, California that handed out 1 masters’s Buddhist studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Buddhist Studies at Institute of Buddhist Studies

2

Won Institute of Graduate Studies
Glenside, Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Buddhist Studies Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Won Institute of Graduate Studies landed the #2 spot on the list. Won Institute of Graduate Studies is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Glenside, Pennsylvania. It awarded 0 masters’s Buddhist studies degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full Won Institute of Graduate Studies Buddhist Studies Report

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.

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