2023 Most Well Attended International and Comparative Education Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s

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In 2020-2021, 293 people earned their degree in international and comparative education, making the major the 724th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 29 international and comparative education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 international and comparative education graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended International and Comparative Education Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in international and comparative education. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in international and comparative education.

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Most Well Attended International and Comparative Education Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended International and Comparative Education Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for International & Comparative Education in the Great Lakes Region

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Loyola University Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

#25 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Loyola University Chicago. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended International and Comparative Education Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s. Loyola University Chicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 13 masters’s international and comparative education degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, 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 85%.

Read more about International & Comparative Education at Loyola University Chicago

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Indiana University - Bloomington
Bloomington, Indiana

#10 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Indiana University - Bloomington. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended International and Comparative Education Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Master’s. Indiana University - Bloomington is a large public school situated in Bloomington, Indiana. It awarded 5 masters’s international and comparative education degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.4% 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%.

Read more about International & Comparative Education at IU Bloomington

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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

• *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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