2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Medieval Studies in the Great Lakes Region

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Medieval Studies is the 346th most popular major in the country with 104 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, medieval studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 27 medieval studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 medieval studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Medieval Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in medieval studies. To top this list, a school must have a successful medieval studies program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Medieval Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Medieval Studies in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana

#3 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Notre Dame. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Medieval Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s. University of Notre Dame is a fairly large school located in Notre Dame, Indiana that handed out 6 masters’s medieval studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Medieval Studies at University of Notre Dame

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Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Medieval Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Michigan University landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and it awarded 3 masters’s medieval studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Western Michigan University Medieval Studies Report

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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

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Edmund Leighton.