2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Literature 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 General Literature Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 338 people earned their degree in general literature, making the major the 699th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 37 general literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 37 general literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general literature programs that also have a lower cost than 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 general literature program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value General Literature Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Literature in the Southeast Region

#1

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$27,020 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value General Literature Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Durham, North Carolina is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s general literature degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

Duke also made our “Best General Literature Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $27,020 for southeast region bachelor’s degree general literature students per year to attend Duke.

The low student loan default rate of 0.9% 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 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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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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