2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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International/Globalization Studies is the 112th most popular major in the country with 7,368 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 1,325 international/globalization studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 246 international/globalization studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree global studies students.
Top 8 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for International/Globalization Studies in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Adventist University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the Southeast Region. Southern Adventist University is located in Collegedale, Tennessee and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 16 masters’s global studies degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about International/Globalization Studies at Southern Adventist
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Palm Beach Atlantic University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the Southeast Region. Located in West Palm Beach, Florida, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 8 diplomas to qualified masters’s global studies students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% 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 Palm Beach Atlantic University International/Globalization Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American Public University System. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Charles Town, West Virginia, and it awarded 113 masters’s global studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 98%.
Read more about International/Globalization Studies at American Public University System
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia International University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. CIU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Columbia, South Carolina. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about International/Globalization Studies at Columbia International University
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, George Mason University landed the #5 spot on the list. GMU is a large public school situated in Fairfax, Virginia. It awarded 37 masters’s global studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% 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%.
Read full report on International/Globalization Studies at GMU
Florida International University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Florida International University is a public institution located in Miami, Florida. The school has a large population, and it awarded 56 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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 International/Globalization Studies at FIU
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, this large public school awarded 11 diplomas to qualified masters’s global studies students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full UNC Chapel Hill International/Globalization Studies Report
With a ranking of #8, East Carolina University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Global Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. East Carolina University is a large school located in Greenville, North Carolina that handed out 3 masters’s global studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about International/Globalization Studies at ECU
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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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