2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Islamic Studies in the Southeast Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Islamic Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 50 people earned their degree in Islamic studies, making the major the 1116th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 6 Islamic studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 Islamic studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Islamic Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in Islamic studies. That schools that top this list have a program in Islamic studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Islamic Studies Major in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Islamic Studies Major in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Islamic Studies Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Islamic Studies in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia International University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Islamic Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Columbia, South Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 5 diplomas to qualified masters’s Islamic studies students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%.
Full CIU Islamic Studies Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Islamic Studies Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified masters’s Islamic studies students in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.
Read full report on Islamic Studies at Emory
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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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