2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Investments and Securities in the Southeast Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Investments and Securities Major in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Investments and Securities is the 869th most popular major in the country with 385 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 53 investments and securities graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 30 investments and securities graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Investments and Securities Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in investments and securities. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their investments and securities program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Investments and Securities Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree investments and securities students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Investments and Securities in the Southeast Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Investments and Securities Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Carolina at Wilmington landed the #1 spot on the list. Wilmington, North Carolina is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s investments and securities degrees to 25 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Investments and Securities at UNCW
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Gardner - Webb University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Investments and Securities Major in the Southeast Region. Gardner - Webb is a small school located in Boiling Springs, North Carolina that handed out 1 masters’s investments and securities degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Gardner - Webb University Investments and Securities Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Investments and Securities Major in the Southeast Region. Vanderbilt University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Nashville, Tennessee. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, 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 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read full report on Investments and Securities at Vanderbilt University
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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%.
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- *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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