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2022 Best Value International Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia

4 Ranked Colleges
240 Degrees Awarded
$34,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value International Business Schools for a Bachelor's in District of Columbia

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value International Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

International Business/Trade/Commerce is the 89th most popular major in the country with 9,824 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across District of Columbia, there were 336 international business/trade/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 240 international business/trade/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,446 and $25,767 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value International Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in international business/trade/commerce. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality international business/trade/commerce programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the international business/trade/commerce program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value International Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia bachelor’s degree international business students.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Business/Trade/Commerce in District of Columbia

#1

Howard University

Washington, District of Columbia
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value International Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Howard University landed the #1 spot on the list. Howard University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Washington, District of Columbia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 22 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Howard also took the #4 spot in our “Best International Business/Trade/Commerce Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Howard is $41,289 for District of Columbia Bachelor’s Degree International Business students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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#2

Catholic University of America

Washington, District of Columbia
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Catholic University of America. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value International Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s international business degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

CUA also took the #3 spot in our “Best International Business/Trade/Commerce Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Catholic University of America is $34,230 for District of Columbia Bachelor’s Degree International Business students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low student loan default rate of 2.8% 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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#3

George Washington University

Washington, District of Columbia
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Washington University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value International Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia. George Washington University is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 132 bachelors’s international business degrees to qualified students.

GWU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best International Business/Trade/Commerce Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” list. It costs about $33,719 for District of Columbia Bachelor’s Degree International Business students per year to attend GWU.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about International Business/Trade/Commerce at GWU

#4

Georgetown University

Washington, District of Columbia
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value International Business Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgetown University landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 78 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s international business students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Georgetown, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best International Business/Trade/Commerce Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Georgetown University is $28,909 for District of Columbia Bachelor’s Degree International Business students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about International Business/Trade/Commerce at Georgetown University

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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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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