by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Archeology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Archeology is the 302nd most popular major in the country with 333 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , archeology graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $27,671 and had an average of $20,475 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 36 archeology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 archeology graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Archeology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in archeology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in archeology.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Archeology Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree archeology students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend College of Charleston. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Archeology Major in the Southeast Region list. C of C is a fairly large school located in Charleston, South Carolina that handed out 7 bachelors’s archeology degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, 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 Southern Adventist University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Archeology Major in the Southeast Region list. Collegedale, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s archeology degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Archeology Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill landed the #3 spot on the list. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public institution located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The school has a large population, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sweet Briar College. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Archeology Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Sweet Briar, Virginia, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s archeology 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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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