2023 Most Focused Colleges for Buddhist Studies
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Buddhist Studies Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 3 people earned their degree in buddhist studies, making the major the 1458th most popular in the United States.
For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Buddhist Studies Major” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in buddhist studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in buddhist studies.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Schools Highly Focused on Buddhist Studies Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for buddhist studies students.
Top 3 Most Focused Colleges for Buddhist Studies
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Institute of Buddhist Studies. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Buddhist Studies Major. Institute of Buddhist Studies is located in Berkeley, California and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 3 ’s buddhist studies degrees to qualified students.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 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 Buddhist Studies at Institute of Buddhist Studies
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Won Institute of Graduate Studies. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Buddhist Studies Major. Won Institute of Graduate Studies is a private not-for-profit institution located in Warminster, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 ’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Full Won Institute of Graduate Studies Buddhist Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Berkeley. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Buddhist Studies Major list. University of California - Berkeley is located in Berkeley, California and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 ’s buddhist studies degrees to qualified students.
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 school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Buddhist Studies at University of California - Berkeley
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.
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