by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Museum Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Museum Studies is the 275th most popular major in the country with 836 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , museum studies graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $36,570 and had an average of $46,920 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 348 museum studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,445 and $52,273 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 museum studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,660 and $23,761 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Museum Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in museum studies. That schools that top this list have a program in museum studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree museum studies students.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Museum Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Juniata College landed the #1 spot on the list. Juniata is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. It awarded 5 bachelors’s museum studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Museum Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Moore College of Art and Design landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s museum studies students in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rochester Institute of Technology. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Museum Studies Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. RIT is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Rochester, New York. It awarded 5 bachelors’s museum studies degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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%.
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