2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution in the New England Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution is the 410th most popular major in the country with 961 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the New England region, there were 45 peace studies & conflict resolution graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 21 peace studies & conflict resolution graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,317 and $23,797 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in peace studies & conflict resolution. That schools that top this list have a program in peace studies & conflict resolution in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree conflict resolution students.
Top 7 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wellesley College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in the New England Region. Wellesley is located in Wellesley, Massachusetts and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 8 bachelors’s conflict resolution degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Anselm College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in the New England Region. Located in Manchester, New Hampshire, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s conflict resolution students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.1% 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 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tufts University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in the New England Region. Located in Medford, Massachusetts, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s conflict resolution students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.1% 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%.
Read full report on Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution at Tufts University
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, College of the Holy Cross landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s conflict resolution students in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
Read more about Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution at College of the Holy Cross
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts - Lowell. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in the New England Region list. Located in Lowell, Massachusetts, this fairly large public school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s conflict resolution students 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 full report on Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution at University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Hampshire College landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in the New England Region ranking. This small school is located in Amherst, Massachusetts, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s conflict resolution degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution at Hampshire
Bennington College ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Conflict Resolution Major in the New England Region list. Bennington College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Bennington, Vermont. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution at Bennington College
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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
- *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.
