2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Southeast Region

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In 2021-2022, 279 people earned their degree in international & comparative education, making the major the 724th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 43 international & comparative education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 international & comparative education graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in international & comparative education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their international & comparative education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree international and comparative education students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for International & Comparative Education in the Southeast Region

1

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

#2 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vanderbilt University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s international and comparative education students in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on International & Comparative Education at Vanderbilt University

2

Florida International University
Miami, Florida

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International and Comparative Education Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida International University landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Miami, Florida, and it awarded 6 masters’s international and comparative education degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

Read more about International & Comparative Education at FIU

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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