2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for American Sign Language (ASL) in the Southeast Region

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American Sign Language (ASL) is the 551st most popular major in the country with 935 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 37 American Sign Language (ASL) graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 American Sign Language (ASL) graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ASL Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in American Sign Language (ASL). That schools that top this list have a program in American Sign Language (ASL) in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ASL Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ASL Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for American Sign Language (ASL) in the Southeast Region

1

Maryville College
Maryville, Tennessee

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ASL Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Maryville College landed the #1 spot on the list. Maryville College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Maryville, Tennessee. The school has a small population, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on American Sign Language (ASL) at Maryville College

2

Piedmont International University
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Piedmont International University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ASL Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s ASL students in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Piedmont International University American Sign Language (ASL) Report

3

Liberty University
Lynchburg, Virginia

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Liberty University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ASL Major in the Southeast Region list. Lynchburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s ASL degrees to 19 students in 2020-2021.

Full Liberty University American Sign Language (ASL) Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for American Sign Language (ASL)

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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