2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for American Sign Language (ASL)
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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In 2021-2022, 980 people earned their degree in american sign language (asl), making the major the 551st most popular in the United States.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 50 american sign language (asl) graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,979 and $43,370 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ASL Major” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in american sign language (asl). That schools that top this list have a program in american sign language (asl) in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ASL Major
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ASL Major”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for American Sign Language (ASL)
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Gallaudet University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ASL Major. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 50 diplomas to qualified masters’s asl students in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. 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%.
Read full report on American Sign Language (ASL) at Gallaudet
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Michigan University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ASL Major. Located in Ypsilanti, Michigan, this fairly large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s asl students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on American Sign Language (ASL) at Eastern Michigan
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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
- *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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