by our College Data Analytics Team
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 for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Community Psychology is the 529th most popular major in the country with 697 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 161 community psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 135 community psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,182 and $43,142 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in community psychology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their community psychology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree community psychology students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Martin University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Great Lakes Region. This small school is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, and it awarded 23 masters’s community psychology degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Alverno College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Alverno College is a small school located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that handed out 25 masters’s community psychology degrees in 2021-2022.
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 school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Wheaton College Illinois landed the #3 spot on the list. Wheaton, Illinois is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s community psychology degrees to 27 students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Community Psychology at Wheaton College Illinois
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Loyola University Chicago. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Great Lakes Region. This fairly large school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 13 masters’s community psychology degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Dayton landed the #5 spot on the list. UDayton is located in Dayton, Ohio and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 4 masters’s community psychology degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Community Psychology at University of Dayton
DePaul University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking, coming in at #6. DePaul University is a large school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 11 masters’s community psychology degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% 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%.
Kent State University at Kent came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Community Psychology Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Located in Kent, Ohio, this large public school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s community psychology students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%.
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