2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

International & Comparative Education is the 724th most popular major in the country with 293 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 54 international and comparative education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 international and comparative education graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 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 Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree international and comparative education students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for International & Comparative Education in the Southeast Region

1

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

#2 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 12 diplomas to qualified masters’s international and comparative education students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Vanderbilt University International & Comparative Education Report

2

Florida International University
Miami, Florida

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida International University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Southeast Region list. FIU is a large public school situated in Miami, Florida. It awarded 4 masters’s international and comparative education degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on International & Comparative Education at Florida International University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for International & Comparative Education

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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