2022 Best Value Regional Studies (U.S., Canadian, Foreign Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k

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 Regional Studies (U.S., Canadian, Foreign Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Regional Studies (U.S., Canadian, Foreign) is the 1076th most popular major in the country with 31 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 regional studies (U.S., Canadian, foreign) graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality regional studies (U.S., Canadian, foreign) programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the regional studies (U.S., Canadian, foreign) program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Regional Studies (U.S., Canadian, Foreign Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Regional Studies (U.S., Canadian, Foreign Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Regional Studies (U.S., Canadian, Foreign (Income $75-$110k)

#1

Houghton College

Houghton, New York

#1 in overall quality

$21,309 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Houghton College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Regional Studies (U.S., Canadian, Foreign Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $75-$110k list. Houghton College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Houghton, New York. It awarded 4 bachelors’s regional studies (U.S., Canadian, foreign) degrees in 2019-2020.

Houghton also took the #1 spot in our “Best Regional Studies (U.S., Canadian, Foreign Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Houghton College is $21,309 for Bachelor’s Degree Regional Studies (U.S., Canadian, Foreign students whose families make $75-$110k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.

Full Houghton Regional Studies (U.S., Canadian, Foreign) Report

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Karl Udo Gerth.

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