2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for International & Comparative Education in the Great Lakes Region
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International & Comparative Education is the 724th most popular major in the country with 293 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 29 international and comparative education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 international and comparative education graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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 Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Great Lakes Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for International & Comparative Education in the Great Lakes Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Loyola University Chicago landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 13 degrees to qualified masters’s international and comparative education students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
Read full report on International & Comparative Education at Loyola Chicago
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana University - Bloomington landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Bloomington, Indiana, and it awarded 5 masters’s international and comparative education degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on International & Comparative Education at Indiana University - Bloomington
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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
- *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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