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

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International & Comparative Education is the 724th most popular major in the country with 293 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 54 international and comparative education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 international and comparative education graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended International and Comparative Education Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in international and comparative education. To top this list, a school must have a successful international and comparative education program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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

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

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

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Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

#2 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended International and Comparative Education Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Vanderbilt University landed the #1 spot on the list. Vanderbilt University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Nashville, Tennessee. It awarded 12 masters’s international and comparative education degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Vanderbilt International & Comparative Education Report

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Florida International University
Miami, Florida

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida International University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended International and Comparative Education Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s. Miami, Florida is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s international and comparative education degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. 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 & Comparative Education at FIU

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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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