2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the New England Region
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Ranked Colleges
199
Degrees Awarded
$33,800
Avg Cost*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Bioethics/Medical Ethics is the 133rd most popular major in the country with 4,980 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , bioethics/medical ethics graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $27,334 and had an average of $37,001 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 323 bioethics/medical ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $40,765 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 199 bioethics/medical ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in bioethics/medical ethics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in bioethics/medical ethics.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree medical ethics students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Bioethics/Medical Ethics in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the New England Region list. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 45 diplomas to qualified masters’s medical ethics students in 2021-2022.
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. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 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.
Full Harvard Bioethics/Medical Ethics Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Medical Ethics Major in the New England Region list. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified masters’s medical ethics students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.
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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%.
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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.
