2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major in the Southeast Region
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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. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2021-2022, 63 people earned their degree in demography & population studies, making the major the 345th most popular in the United States. In , demography & population studies graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 4 demography & population studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 demography & population studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in demography & population studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their demography & population studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree population studies students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Demography & Population Studies in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major in the Southeast Region. This large school is located in Tallahassee, Florida, and it awarded 4 masters’s population studies 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.
Read more about Demography & Population Studies at Florida State University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Population Studies Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s population studies students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 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 excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Demography & Population Studies at Emory
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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%.
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- *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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