2022 Best Value International and Comparative Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value International and Comparative Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

International & Comparative Education is the 666th most popular major in the country with 380 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 69 international and comparative education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 35 international and comparative education graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent international and comparative education 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 international and comparative education program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value International and Comparative Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value International and Comparative Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value International and Comparative Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International & Comparative Education (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$-7,808 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Duke University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value International and Comparative Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Duke University is a fairly large school located in Durham, North Carolina that handed out 35 bachelors’s international and comparative education degrees in 2019-2020.

Duke not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best International & Comparative Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $-7,808 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree International and Comparative Education students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Duke. The negative number means the student will receive more financial aid on average than it costs to attend the school.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low student loan default rate of 0.9% 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 University International & Comparative Education 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

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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