2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for International Education in the Great Lakes Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” 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.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 32 international education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 international education graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality international education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the international education program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. 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 Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” 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 Master’s in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree international ed students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for International Education in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Loyola University Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$19,154 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$40,461 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Loyola University Chicago. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value International Ed Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Loyola University Chicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 16 masters’s international ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Loyola Chicago also made our “Best International Education Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Loyola University Chicago are $19,154, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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