2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Gay/Lesbian Studies

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Gay/Lesbian Studies is the 1227th most popular major in the country with 63 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 gay/lesbian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in gay/lesbian studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent gay/lesbian studies programs, but they also cost less that 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 gay/lesbian studies program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree gay/lesbian studies students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Gay/Lesbian Studies

#1

Mills College

Oakland, California

#2 in overall quality

$22,202 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mills College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s. Mills is a private not-for-profit institution located in Oakland, California. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Mills, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Gay/Lesbian Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Mills is $22,202 for bachelor’s degree gay/lesbian studies students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Mills Gay/Lesbian Studies Report

#2

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

#1 in overall quality

$40,126 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cornell University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Ithaca, New York, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 4 degrees to qualified bachelors’s gay/lesbian studies students in 2019-2020.

Cornell also took the #1 spot in our “Best Gay/Lesbian Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $40,126 for Bachelor’s Degree Gay/Lesbian Studies students per year to attend Cornell University.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Gay/Lesbian Studies at Cornell University

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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