2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Development Economics & International Development in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Development Economics and International Development Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 595 people earned their degree in development economics and international development, making the major the 529th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 70 development economics and international development graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 development economics and international development graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent development economics and international development programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the development economics and international development program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Development Economics and International Development Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Development Economics and International Development Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Development Economics & International Development in the Southeast Region

#1

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia

#1 in overall quality

$44,676 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Development Economics and International Development Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory University landed the #1 spot on the list. Emory is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Atlanta, Georgia. It awarded 16 masters’s development economics and international development degrees in 2019-2020.

Emory also took the #1 spot in our “Best Development Economics & International Development Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Emory are $44,676.

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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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