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Most Popular Literature Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

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2023 Most Popular Literature Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Finding the Best Literature Graduate Certificate School for You

Literature is the #238 most popular major in the country with 162 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Most Popular Literature Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to see which ones were the most popular graduate certificate programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Literature program at each school on the list.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for literature majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

#1

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, NY

Our 2023 rankings named Stony Brook University the most popular school in the Middle Atlantic Region for literature students working on their graduate certificate. SUNY Stony Brook is a very large public school located in the suburb of Stony Brook.

Women make up 80% of the literature majors at the school.

Full Literature at Stony Brook University Report

#2

University at Albany

Albany, NY

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University at Albany. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Literature Graduate Certificate Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. UAlbany is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Albany.

Read full report on Literature at University at Albany

Best Literature Colleges by State

Explore the best literature schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 58
Pennsylvania 1
District of Columbia 1

Literature is one of 3 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
General English Literature 4,966
Writing Studies 4,263
English Literature (Other) 175

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • 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.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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