by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Well Attended Poly Sci Major in Georgia for a Master’s” ranking.
Political Science is the 13th most popular major in the country with 47,549 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Georgia, there were 1,195 political science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 37 political science graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,186 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Poly Sci Major in Georgia for a Master’s” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in political science. To top this list, a school must have a successful political science program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for georgia master’s degree poly sci students.
Out of the 5 schools in the Most Well Attended Poly Sci Major in Georgia for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Atlanta, Georgia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s poly sci degrees to 17 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Augusta University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Poly Sci Major in Georgia for a Master’s list. Augusta University is located in Augusta, Georgia and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 masters’s poly sci degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% 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%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Poly Sci Major in Georgia for a Master’s list. UGA is a large public school situated in Athens, Georgia. It awarded 6 masters’s poly sci degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended Poly Sci Major in Georgia for a Master’s. This fairly large school is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and it awarded 4 masters’s poly sci degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Out of the 5 schools in the Most Well Attended Poly Sci Major in Georgia for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Clark Atlanta University landed the #5 spot on the list. Atlanta, Georgia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s poly sci degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.
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