2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Portuguese in the Southeast Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Portuguese is the 1010th most popular major in the country with 86 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 8 Portuguese graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 Portuguese graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in Portuguese. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their Portuguese program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree portuguese students.
Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Portuguese in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida International University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southeast Region list. Florida International University is a large school located in Miami, Florida that handed out 4 bachelors’s Portuguese degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Portuguese at FIU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Florida. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Gainesville, Florida, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s Portuguese degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full University of Florida Portuguese Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tulane University of Louisiana. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s Portuguese students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Read full report on Portuguese at Tulane University of Louisiana
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Duke University landed the #3 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Durham, North Carolina, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s Portuguese degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.3% 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%.
Full Duke Portuguese Report
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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
- *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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