2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the New England Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 6,614 people earned their degree in international/globalization studies, making the major the 112th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 501 international/globalization studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 international/globalization studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,470 and $116,265 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in international/globalization studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their international/globalization studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree global studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for International/Globalization Studies in the New England Region

1

University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Lowell, Massachusetts

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts - Lowell landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Lowell, Massachusetts, and it awarded 6 doctorate’s global studies 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%.

Read more about International/Globalization Studies at University of Massachusetts - Lowell

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University of Maine
Orono, Maine

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Maine is located in Orono, Maine and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 18 doctorate’s global studies degrees to qualified students.

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 International/Globalization Studies at UMaine

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

Footnotes

• *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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