2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Education

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value International Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

International Education is the 291st most popular major in the country with 380 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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.

For this year’s “Best Value International Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the international education program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value International Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree international ed students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Education

#1

Avila University

Kansas City, Missouri

#2 in overall quality

$17,048 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Avila University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value International Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Kansas City, Missouri is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s international ed degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree international ed students list, Avila has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best International Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Avila University is $17,048 for bachelor’s degree international ed students.

Read full report on International Education at Avila

#2

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$27,020 Average Net Price

$25,194 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value International Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Duke is a private not-for-profit institution located in Durham, North Carolina. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 35 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Duke, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best International Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $27,020 for bachelor’s degree international ed students per year to attend Duke University.

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 impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. 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%.

Full Duke University International 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

• *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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