2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major

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In 2020-2021, 293 people earned their degree in international and comparative education, making the major the 724th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 36 international and comparative education graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in international and comparative education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their international and comparative education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International & Comparative Education

1

Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

#3 overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major list. Duke is a fairly large school located in Durham, North Carolina that handed out 36 bachelors’s international and comparative education degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about International & Comparative Education at Duke

2

Anderson University Indiana
Anderson, Indiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Anderson University Indiana. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major list. Located in Anderson, Indiana, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s international and comparative education students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about International & Comparative Education at Anderson University Indiana

2

Avila University
Kansas City, Missouri

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Avila University landed the #2 spot on the list. Avila is located in Kansas City, Missouri and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s international and comparative education degrees to qualified students.

Full Avila University International & Comparative Education Report

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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