You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend College of the Holy Cross. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Catholic Studies Major in Massachusetts. Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s catholic studies students in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%.