2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the New England Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Liberal Arts is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 2nd of all the majors we analyze. In 2021-2022, 354,866 degrees were awarded to students with this major.
Across the New England region, there were 4,003 liberal arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 45 liberal arts 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 Liberal Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 9 colleges that offer a degree in liberal arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their liberal arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the New England Region”.
Top 9 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Goddard College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the New England Region list. Located in Plainfield, Vermont, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 13 degrees to qualified masters’s liberal studies students in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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%.
Full Goddard College Liberal Arts Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wesleyan University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the New England Region list. Middletown, Connecticut is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s liberal studies degrees to 30 students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%. 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.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Yale University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the New England Region list. Yale is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in New Haven, Connecticut. It awarded 4 masters’s liberal studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 98%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Yale Liberal Arts Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the New England Region list. This fairly large school is located in Durham, New Hampshire, and it awarded 1 masters’s liberal studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% 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 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Liberal Arts at University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Vermont University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the New England Region list. This small school is located in Johnson, Vermont, and it awarded 1 masters’s liberal studies degrees in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 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 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Liberal Arts at Northern Vermont University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maine. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the New England Region. Located in Orono, Maine, this fairly large public school awarded 41 diplomas to qualified masters’s liberal studies students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Liberal Arts at University of Maine
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harvard University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the New England Region. Harvard University is a large school located in Cambridge, Massachusetts that handed out 3 masters’s liberal studies degrees in 2021-2022.
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 impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. 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 Liberal Arts Report
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Albertus Magnus College landed the #5 spot on the list. This small school is located in New Haven, Connecticut, and it awarded 10 masters’s liberal studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Liberal Arts at Albertus Magnus College
Out of the 9 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Liberal Studies Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Bennington College landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Bennington, Vermont, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s liberal studies students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read full report on Liberal Arts at Bennington
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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.
