2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Demography & Population Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

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In 2020-2021, 88 people earned their degree in demography and population studies, making the major the 345th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, demography and population studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 14 demography and population studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 demography and population studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,076 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Population Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in demography and population studies. That schools that top this list have a program in demography and population studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Population Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Population Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Demography & Population Studies in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey

#4 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Princeton University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Population Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in Princeton, New Jersey, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s population studies students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

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2

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#1 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Pennsylvania. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Population Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This large school is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s population studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.

Read more about Demography & Population Studies at UPenn

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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.

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