2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for International/Globalization Studies in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2021-2022, 6,614 people earned their degree in international/globalization studies, making the major the 112th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,181 international/globalization studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 international/globalization studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,674 and $121,130 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in international/globalization studies. That schools that top this list have a program in international/globalization studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for International/Globalization Studies in the Southeast Region

1

Florida International University
Miami, Florida

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida International University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the Southeast Region. Miami, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s global studies degrees to 9 students in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full FIU International/Globalization Studies Report

2

American Public University System
Charles Town, West Virginia

#20 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, American Public University System landed the #2 spot on the list. American Military University is a large private for-profit school situated in Charles Town, West Virginia. It awarded 245 doctorate’s global studies degrees in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, 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 91%.

Full American Military University International/Globalization Studies Report

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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