2023 Best Value Colleges for Gay/Lesbian Studies
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Ranked Colleges
85
Degrees Awarded
$37,000
Avg Net Price*
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 85 people earned their degree in gay/lesbian studies, making the major the 1230th most popular in the United States.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality gay/lesbian studies 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 gay/lesbian studies 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 Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools
The colleges and universities below are the best for gay/lesbian studies students.
Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Gay/Lesbian Studies
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cornell University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Best Value Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools list. Cornell is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Ithaca, New York. It awarded 10 ’s gay/lesbian studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Cornell not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Cornell University is $37,042 for gay/lesbian studies students.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad 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%.
Read more about Gay/Lesbian Studies at Cornell University
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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
- *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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