by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
South Asian Languages is the 367th most popular major in the country with 14 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 south asian languages graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,979 and $43,370 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in south asian languages. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in south asian languages.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Maharishi International University landed the #1 spot on the list. MIU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Fairfield, Iowa. The school has a small population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Chicago. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major. University of Chicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 5 masters’s south asian degrees in 2021-2022.
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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 99%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harvard University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on South Asian Major. Harvard University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.3% 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
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