2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Education (Income $48-$75k)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 380 people earned their degree in international education, making the major the 291st most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, international education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $51,040 and had an average of $37,857 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 36 international education graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value International Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in international education. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent international education programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the international education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value International Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value International Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value International Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Education (Income $48-$75k)

#1

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$4,150 Average Net Price

$25,194 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value International Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Duke University landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Durham, North Carolina, and it awarded 35 bachelors’s international ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Duke also took the #1 spot in our “Best International Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Duke University is $4,150 for bachelor’s degree international ed students whose families make $48-$75k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about International Education at Duke University

#2

Avila University

Kansas City, Missouri

#2 in overall quality

$16,008 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value International Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Avila University landed the #2 spot on the list. Avila is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Kansas City, Missouri. It awarded 1 bachelors’s international ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Avila also took the #2 spot in our “Best International Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Avila is $16,008 for bachelor’s degree international ed students whose families make $48-$75k.

Read more about International Education at Avila

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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