2022 Best Value Literature Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Literature Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 756 people earned their degree in literature, making the major the 250th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, literature graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $23,970 and had an average of $29,434 in loans still to pay off.

Across North Carolina, there were 10 literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 literature graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,192 and $24,368 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality literature 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 literature 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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The literature school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Literature Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina”.

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Best Value Literature Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Literature Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Literature in North Carolina

#1

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$27,020 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Literature Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Duke University landed the #1 spot on the list. Duke is a fairly large school located in Durham, North Carolina that handed out 10 bachelors’s literature degrees in 2019-2020.

Duke did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Literature Bachelor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. The yearly cost to attend Duke University is $27,020 for North Carolina Bachelor’s Degree Literature students.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its 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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