2024 Best General Education Schools in the Southeast Region
81Colleges in the Southeast Region
4,037Education Degrees Awarded
$45,577Avg Early-Career Salary
General Education is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #41 most popular 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 81 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best General Education Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 4,037 degrees in general education to qualified students.
Your choice of general education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General Education School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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Best Schools for General Education in the Southeast Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the education degrees they offer, see the list below. Only those schools that rank in the top 15% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
It is hard to beat Vanderbilt University if you want to pursue a degree in general education. Vanderbilt is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Nashville. A Best Colleges rank of #19 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Vanderbilt is a great university overall.
There were roughly 11 general education students who graduated with this degree at Vanderbilt in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat University of Virginia - Main Campus if you wish to pursue a degree in general education. University of Virginia is a fairly large public university located in the small suburb of Charlottesville. A Best Colleges rank of #33 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means University of Virginia is a great university overall.
There were approximately 159 general education students who graduated with this degree at University of Virginia in the most recent data year. Degree recipients from the general education degree program at University of Virginia - Main Campus earn $23,819 more than the average college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
Every student pursuing a degree in general education has to check out University of Georgia. Located in the city of Athens, UGA is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #72 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UGA is a great university overall.
There were roughly 39 general education students who graduated with this degree at UGA in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in general education has to take a look at Nova Southeastern University. NUS Florida is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Fort Lauderdale. This university ranks 10th out of 77 schools for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were approximately 296 general education students who graduated with this degree at NUS Florida in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the general education degree program at Nova Southeastern University earn $24,756 more than the average college grad with the same degree shortly after graduation.
Located in the city of Gainesville, UF is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #58 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UF is a great university overall.
There were about 38 general education students who graduated with this degree at UF in the most recent data year.
JMU is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Harrisonburg. A Best Colleges rank of #169 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means JMU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 295 general education students who graduated with this degree at JMU in the most recent data year. Degree recipients from the general education program at James Madison University earn $2,826 above the standard college graduate with the same degree shortly after graduation.
UNC Chapel Hill is a very large public university located in the small city of Chapel Hill. A Best Colleges rank of #43 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UNC Chapel Hill is a great university overall.
There were roughly 22 general education students who graduated with this degree at UNC Chapel Hill in the most recent data year. Those general education students who get their degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill earn $12,802 more than the standard education graduate.
Located in the midsize city of Knoxville, UT Knoxville is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #173 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UT Knoxville is a great university overall.
There were roughly 35 general education students who graduated with this degree at UT Knoxville in the most recent data year. Those general education students who get their degree from The University of Tennessee - Knoxville receive $24,146 more than the standard education grad.
Located in the city of Richmond, VCU is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 7th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Virginia.
There were about 116 general education students who graduated with this degree at VCU in the most recent year we have data available. General Education degree recipients from Virginia Commonwealth University get an earnings boost of approximately $13,993 above the average income of general education majors.
NC State is a very large public university located in the large city of Raleigh. A Best Colleges rank of #92 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means NC State is a great university overall.
There were about 21 general education students who graduated with this degree at NC State in the most recent data year.
UCF is a very large public university located in the large suburb of Orlando. A Best Colleges rank of #193 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UCF is a great university overall.
There were approximately 82 general education students who graduated with this degree at UCF in the most recent data year. Those general education students who get their degree from University of Central Florida earn $26,650 more than the standard education grad.
FGCU is a large public university located in the suburb of Fort Myers. This university ranks 25th out of 77 colleges for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were about 49 general education students who graduated with this degree at FGCU in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the education program report average early career wages of $35,552.
Here are some additional great schools for General Education students in the Southeast Region that almost earned our Best General Education Schools in the Southeast Region award.
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.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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Your choice of general education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General Education School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
