2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International & Comparative Education (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 and Comparative Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

International & Comparative Education is the 666th most popular major in the country with 380 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 69 international and comparative education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 35 international and comparative education graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent international and comparative education programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the international and comparative education program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value International and Comparative Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value International and Comparative Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International & Comparative Education (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$4,150 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value International and Comparative Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Duke is a fairly large school located in Durham, North Carolina that handed out 35 bachelors’s international and comparative education degrees in 2019-2020.

Duke did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best International & Comparative Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Duke University is $4,150 for southeast region bachelor’s degree international and comparative education students whose families make $48-$75k.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, 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 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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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