2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethics Major in the Southeast Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Ethics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Ethics is the 934th most popular major in the country with 182 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 8 ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in ethics. That schools that top this list have a program in ethics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethics Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree ethics students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Ethics in the Southeast Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary landed the #1 spot on the list. SEBTS is a small school located in Wake Forest, North Carolina that handed out 2 masters’s ethics degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. 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.
Full Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Ethics Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Carolina at Charlotte landed the #2 spot on the list. Charlotte, North Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s ethics degrees to 6 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Ethics at UNC Charlotte
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Florida. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Ethics Major in the Southeast Region list. UNF is a public institution located in Jacksonville, Florida. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Ethics at University of North Florida
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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.
