2022 Best Value Retailing and Retail Operations Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Retailing and Retail Operations Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 947 people earned their degree in retailing and retail operations, making the major the 560th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 220 retailing and retail operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 186 retailing and retail operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Retailing and Retail Operations Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in retailing and retail operations. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great retailing and retail operations programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the retailing and retail operations program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Retailing and Retail Operations Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Retailing and Retail Operations Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Retailing and Retail Operations in the Southeast Region

#1

American Public University System

Charles Town, West Virginia

#2 in overall quality

$10,222 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend American Public University System. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Retailing and Retail Operations Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. American Military University is a large private for-profit school situated in Charles Town, West Virginia. It awarded 20 bachelors’s retailing and retail operations degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at American Military University, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Retailing and Retail Operations Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $10,222 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Retailing and Retail Operations students per year to attend American Military University.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 98%.

Full American Public University System Retailing and Retail Operations Report

#2

University of South Carolina - Columbia

Columbia, South Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$20,509 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of South Carolina - Columbia. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Retailing and Retail Operations Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Columbia, South Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s retailing and retail operations degrees to 166 students in 2019-2020.

UofSC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Retailing and Retail Operations Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $20,509 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Retailing and Retail Operations students per year to attend University of South Carolina - Columbia.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of South Carolina - Columbia Retailing and Retail Operations Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Retailing and Retail Operations

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nick Nijhuis.

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