You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Duke University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Political Economy Major in North Carolina. Duke University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Durham, North Carolina. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.