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2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Humanities Major in the Great Lakes Region

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192 Degrees Awarded
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Schools for a Master's Highly Focused on Humanities Major in the Great Lakes Region

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In 2021-2022, 21,530 people earned their degree in humanities, making the major the 37th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,529 humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 192 humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,182 and $43,142 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Humanities Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in humanities. That schools that top this list have a program in humanities in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Humanities Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree humanities students.

Top 6 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Humanities in the Great Lakes Region

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Tiffin University
Tiffin, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tiffin University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Humanities Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Tiffin, Ohio, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 43 degrees to qualified masters’s humanities students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%.

Read more about Humanities at Tiffin University

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University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Chicago. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Humanities Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s humanities degrees to 146 students 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 99%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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.

Read more about Humanities at UChicago

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John Carroll University
University Heights, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend John Carroll University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Humanities Major in the Great Lakes Region list. University Heights, Ohio is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s humanities degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Humanities Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Columbus, Ohio, this large public school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s humanities students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, 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%.

Full Ohio State University - Main Campus Humanities Report

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Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Humanities Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Illinois Institute of Technology landed the #5 spot on the list. Illinois Institute of Technology is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 1 masters’s humanities degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Humanities at Illinois Institute of Technology

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Central Michigan University
Mount Pleasant, Michigan

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Humanities Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Central Michigan University landed the #5 spot on the list. Central Michigan is a fairly large school located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan that handed out 0 masters’s humanities degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Humanities at Central Michigan

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