Out of the 1 schools in the Most Well Attended Catholic Studies Major in Massachusetts for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, College of the Holy Cross landed the #1 spot on the list. Holy Cross is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Worcester, Massachusetts. It awarded 1 bachelors’s catholic studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. 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%.