by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Archeology Major in Massachusetts for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Archeology is the 302nd most popular major in the country with 339 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, archeology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $27,671 and had an average of $25,192 in loans still to pay off.
Across Massachusetts, there were 23 archeology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 archeology graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,084 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Archeology Major in Massachusetts for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in archeology. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in archeology.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Archeology Major in Massachusetts for a Master’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts - Boston. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Archeology Major in Massachusetts for a Master’s list. UMass Boston is a public institution located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boston University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Archeology Major in Massachusetts for a Master’s. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 5 degrees to qualified masters’s archeology students in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Archeology Major in Massachusetts for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Tufts University landed the #3 spot on the list. Tufts is a fairly large school located in Medford, Massachusetts that handed out 4 masters’s archeology degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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