2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Women’s Studies in the Southeast Region
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Women’s Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Women’s Studies is the 254th most popular major in the country with 2,802 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.
Across the Southeast region, there were 466 women’s studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 296 women’s studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Women’s Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 14 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in women’s studies. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality women’s studies 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 women’s studies program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Best Value Women’s Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Women’s Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region.
Top 14 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Women’s Studies in the Southeast Region
Out of the 14 schools in the Best Value Women’s Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida International University landed the #1 spot on the list. Florida International University is a large school located in Miami, Florida that handed out 25 bachelors’s women’s studies degrees in 2019-2020.
FIU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #8 on our “Best Women’s Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $7,296 for southeast region bachelor’s degree women’s studies students per year to attend Florida International University.
With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of South Florida - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Women’s Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. USF Tampa is a public institution located in Tampa, Florida. The school has a large population, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree women’s studies students list, USF Tampa has also earned the #9 rank in our “Best Women’s Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend USF Tampa is $8,355 for southeast region bachelor’s degree women’s studies students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Florida. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Women’s Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. UF is located in Gainesville, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 29 bachelors’s women’s studies degrees to qualified students.
UF also made our “Best Women’s Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $6,302 for southeast region bachelor’s degree women’s studies students per year to attend UF.
The student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Greensboro. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Women’s Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. UNC Greensboro is a fairly large public school situated in Greensboro, North Carolina. It awarded 12 bachelors’s women’s studies degrees in 2019-2020.
UNC Greensboro also made our “Best Women’s Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #12. It costs about $12,748 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Women’s Studies students per year to attend University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Women’s Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. University of Georgia is located in Athens, Georgia and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 20 bachelors’s women’s studies degrees to qualified students.
In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree women’s studies students list, UGA has also earned the #6 rank in our “Best Women’s Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $13,649 for southeast region bachelor’s degree women’s studies students per year to attend University of Georgia.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
University of Louisville did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Women’s Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #6. Louisville, Kentucky is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s women’s studies degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree women’s studies students list, UofL has also earned the #14 rank in our “Best Women’s Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $16,867 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Women’s Studies students per year to attend University of Louisville.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Women’s Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #7. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public institution located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The school has a large population, and it awarded 33 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
UNC Chapel Hill did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Women’s Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $12,352 for southeast region bachelor’s degree women’s studies students per year to attend University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%.
Spelman College landed the #8 spot on the 2022 Best Value Women’s Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. Spelman College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Atlanta, Georgia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 30 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
Spelman also made our “Best Women’s Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #7. The estimated yearly cost for Spelman is $43,843 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Women’s Studies students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
University of South Carolina - Columbia landed the #9 spot on the 2022 Best Value Women’s Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. Located in Columbia, South Carolina, this large public school handed out 4 degrees to qualified bachelors’s women’s studies students in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree women’s studies students list, UofSC has also earned the #10 rank in our “Best Women’s Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of South Carolina - Columbia is $20,509 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Women’s Studies students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
College of Charleston ranked #10 on this year’s Best Value Women’s Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. C of C is a fairly large public school situated in Charleston, South Carolina. It awarded 9 bachelors’s women’s studies degrees in 2019-2020.
C of C not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #13 on our “Best Women’s Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $19,000 for southeast region bachelor’s degree women’s studies students per year to attend C of C.
Virginia Commonwealth University landed the #11 spot on the 2022 Best Value Women’s Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. This large school is located in Richmond, Virginia, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s women’s studies degrees in 2019-2020.
VCU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #11 on our “Best Women’s Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Virginia Commonwealth University is $22,021 for southeast region bachelor’s degree women’s studies students.
The student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Emory University came in at #12 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Women’s Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. Emory is located in Atlanta, Georgia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 12 bachelors’s women’s studies degrees to qualified students.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Emory, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Women’s Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Emory is $23,734 for southeast region bachelor’s degree women’s studies students.
The 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 low student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
With a ranking of #13, Vanderbilt University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Women’s Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Vanderbilt is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Nashville, Tennessee. It awarded 9 bachelors’s women’s studies degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Vanderbilt, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Women’s Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $19,432 for southeast region bachelor’s degree women’s studies students per year to attend Vanderbilt University.
The student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. 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 impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
University of Richmond did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Women’s Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #14. University of Richmond is located in University of Richmond, Virginia and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s women’s studies degrees to qualified students.
URichmond also made our “Best Women’s Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #5. The estimated yearly cost for URichmond is $25,838 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Women’s Studies students.
The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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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%.
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- *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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