2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Ed Major in the Southeast Region

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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. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 international education graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Ed Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in international education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in international education.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Ed Major in the Southeast Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for International Education in the Southeast Region

1

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

#2 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Ed Major in the Southeast Region. Vanderbilt is located in Nashville, Tennessee and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 12 masters’s international ed degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Vanderbilt University International Education Report

2

Florida International University
Miami, Florida

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

$41,139 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida International University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Ed Major in the Southeast Region list. Miami, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s international ed degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on International Education at FIU

• Most Focused Master’s Degree 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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