2025 Best Philosophy Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
2Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
133Master's Degrees
Philosophy is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #131 most popular master's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Philosophy Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 133 master's degrees in philosophy during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to philosophy students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of philosophy students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for philosophy to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized philosophy related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for philosophy students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Philosophy Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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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.
by our College Data Analytics Team
