2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Education in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value International Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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.

Across the Southeast region, there were 69 international education graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,400 and $9,965 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 35 international education graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great international education programs and 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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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value International Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value International Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value International Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Education in the Southeast Region

#1

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 #1 on our 2022 Best Value International Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Duke University is a fairly large school located in Durham, North Carolina that handed out 35 bachelors’s international ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Duke also took the #1 spot in our “Best International Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $27,020 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree International Ed students per year to attend Duke University.

The 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 freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. 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

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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

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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