2025 Best Philosophy Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
856Philosophy Degrees Awarded
$33,575Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in philosophy is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #83 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for philosophy students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 856 degrees in philosophy to qualified students.
The philosophy program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Philosophy rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for philosophy schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Philosophy Schools in the New England Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Philosophy in the New England Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the philosophy degrees they offer, see the list below.
Boston College is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in philosophy. Boston College is a large private not-for-profit college located in the small city of Chestnut Hill. A Best Colleges rank of #17 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Boston College is a great college overall.
There were approximately 108 philosophy students who graduated with this degree at Boston College in the most recent data year. Those philosophy students who get their degree from Boston College make $13,770 more than the typical philosophy grad.
Boston University is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in philosophy. Boston U is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Boston. This university ranks 4th out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were roughly 61 philosophy students who graduated with this degree at Boston U in the most recent year we have data available. Those philosophy students who get their degree from Boston University earn $6,802 more than the average philosophy graduate.
Any student who is interested in philosophy needs to look into University of Massachusetts - Boston. UMass Boston is a large public university located in the large city of Boston. This university ranks 25th out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were roughly 24 philosophy students who graduated with this degree at UMass Boston in the most recent year we have data available. Philosophy degree recipients from University of Massachusetts - Boston receive an earnings boost of around $3,006 over the typical income of philosophy majors.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
The philosophy program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Philosophy rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for philosophy schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
