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2022 Best Value Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

5 Ranked Colleges
46 Degrees Awarded
$23,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 5,707 people earned their degree in teaching English as a second or foreign language/ESL language instructor, making the major the 182nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 900 teaching English as a second or foreign language/ESL language instructor graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 46 teaching English as a second or foreign language/ESL language instructor graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in teaching English as a second or foreign language/ESL language instructor. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality teaching English as a second or foreign language/ESL language instructor 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 teaching English as a second or foreign language/ESL language instructor program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree teaching english as a second or foreign language/esl language instructor students.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor in the Southeast Region

#1

Lee University

Cleveland, Tennessee
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lee University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Lee University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Cleveland, Tennessee. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Lee University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $17,696 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor students per year to attend Lee University.

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#2

Johnson University

Knoxville, Tennessee
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johnson University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. This small school is located in Knoxville, Tennessee, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s teaching English as a second or foreign language degrees in 2019-2020.

Johnson University also took the #4 spot in our “Best Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Johnson University is $18,915 for southeast region bachelor’s degree teaching english as a second or foreign language/esl language instructor students.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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#3

Union University

Jackson, Tennessee
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Union University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Union University is located in Jackson, Tennessee and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s teaching English as a second or foreign language degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Union, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Union is $28,249 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 4.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

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#4

Southern Adventist University

Collegedale, Tennessee
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Adventist University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. This small school is located in Collegedale, Tennessee, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s teaching English as a second or foreign language degrees in 2019-2020.

Southern Adventist not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Southern Adventist University is $22,661 for southeast region bachelor’s degree teaching english as a second or foreign language/esl language instructor students.

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#5

Liberty University

Lynchburg, Virginia
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Liberty University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Lynchburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s teaching English as a second or foreign language degrees to 32 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Liberty University, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Liberty University is $28,903 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor students.

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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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