2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for International & Comparative Education in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Southwest region, there were 14 international and comparative education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 international and comparative education graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered 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 Southwest Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for International & Comparative Education in the Southwest Region

1

Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sam Houston State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Southwest Region. Huntsville, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s international and comparative education degrees to 7 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on International & Comparative Education at SHSU

2

Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Arizona University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Flagstaff, Arizona, this large public school awarded 7 degrees to qualified masters’s international and comparative education students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full NAU International & Comparative Education Report

3

Arizona State University - Skysong
Scottsdale, Arizona

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Skysong. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Southwest Region. ASU - Skysong is located in Scottsdale, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s international and comparative education degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Arizona State University - Skysong International & Comparative Education Report

• 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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