2023 Most Popular Colleges for Woodworking in the New England Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Woodworking Major in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Woodworking is the 330th most popular major in the country with 431 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, woodworking graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,324 and had an average of $18,500 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 62 woodworking graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,714 and $26,000 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Woodworking Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in woodworking. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in woodworking.

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Most Well Attended Woodworking Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region woodworking students.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Woodworking in the New England Region

1

Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, Rhode Island

$35,346 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,750 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rhode Island School of Design. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Woodworking Major in the New England Region list. Rhode Island School of Design is located in Providence, Rhode Island and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 24 ’s woodworking degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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 school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Woodworking at Rhode Island School of Design

2

Eastern Maine Community College
Bangor, Maine

$40,182 Average Early-Career Earnings

$17,387 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Maine Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Woodworking Major in the New England Region list. Bangor, Maine is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s woodworking degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Woodworking at Eastern Maine Community College

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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

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.