2023 Best Value International Ed Schools in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value International Ed Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 293 people earned their degree in international education, making the major the 302nd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, international education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $48,867 and had an average of $12,250 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 54 international education graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,050 and $12,250 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value International Ed Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in international education. 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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Best Value International Ed Schools in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region international ed students.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for International Education in the Southeast Region

1

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

#2 in overall quality

$19,970 Average Net Price

$66,962 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value International Ed Schools in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Vanderbilt University landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Nashville, Tennessee, and it awarded 12 ’s international ed degrees in 2020-2021.

Vanderbilt not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best International Education Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $19,970 for Southeast Region International Ed students per year to attend Vanderbilt.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on International Education at Vanderbilt

2

Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$32,459 Average Net Price

$71,290 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Duke University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value International Ed Schools in the Southeast Region. Duke University is located in Durham, North Carolina and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 36 ’s international ed degrees to qualified students.

Duke not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best International Education Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Duke is $32,459 for southeast region international ed students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.

Full Duke University International Education Report

• Best Value Colleges for International 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

• *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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