2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Museology/Museum Studies in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Museology/Museum Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Museology/Museum Studies is the 561st most popular major in the country with 836 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southeast region, there were 68 museology/museum studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 museology/museum studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museology/Museum Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in museology/museum studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in museology/museum studies.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museology/Museum Studies Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museology/Museum Studies Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Museology/Museum Studies in the Southeast Region

1

Southern University at New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museology/Museum Studies Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern University at New Orleans landed the #1 spot on the list. Southern University at New Orleans is located in New Orleans, Louisiana and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 6 masters’s museology/museum studies degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 5.0% 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%.

Full SUNO Museology/Museum Studies Report

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University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

#9 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museology/Museum Studies Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Florida landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Florida is a large school located in Gainesville, Florida that handed out 4 masters’s museology/museum studies degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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.

Read more about Museology/Museum Studies at University of Florida

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.