2022 Best Value Housing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Housing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 911 people earned their degree in housing, making the major the 310th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, housing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $43,433 and had an average of $24,194 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 219 housing graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,600 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 38 housing graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great housing programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the housing program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Housing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Housing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree housing students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Housing in the Southeast Region

#1

University of Georgia

Athens, Georgia

#1 in overall quality

$13,649 Average Net Price

$45,500 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Housing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. University of Georgia is a public institution located in Athens, Georgia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 36 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UGA, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Housing Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $13,649 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Housing students per year to attend UGA.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Housing at University of Georgia

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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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