2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for International & Comparative Education in the Great Lakes 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 International and Comparative Education Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 32 international and comparative education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 international and comparative education graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality international and comparative education 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 and comparative education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value International and Comparative Education Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” list to help you make the college decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value International and Comparative Education Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value International and Comparative Education Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for International & Comparative Education in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Loyola University Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$19,154 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value International and Comparative Education Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Loyola University Chicago landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 16 masters’s international and comparative education degrees in 2019-2020.

Loyola Chicago did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best International & Comparative Education Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Loyola Chicago are $19,154, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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