2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museum Studies Major in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Museum Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2021-2022, 836 people earned their degree in museum studies, making the major the 275th most popular in the United States. 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 Southeast region, there were 68 museum studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 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 Museum Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in museum studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their museum studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree museum studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for 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 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 museum studies degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full SUNO Museum Studies Report

2

University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

#9 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Florida. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Museum Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Gainesville, Florida, and it awarded 4 masters’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%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Museum Studies at UF

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.