2022 Best Value International Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

International Education is the 291st most popular major in the country with 380 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, international education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $51,040 and had an average of $37,857 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 69 international education graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,400 and $9,965 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 35 international 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 education programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the international education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value International Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree international ed students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Education (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$-1,314 Average Net Price

$25,194 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value International Ed Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. This fairly large school is located in Durham, North Carolina, and it awarded 35 bachelors’s international ed degrees in 2019-2020.

Duke also took the #1 spot in our “Best International Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Duke University is $-1,314 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree International Ed students whose families make $30-$48k. A negative average net price may seem strange, but it generally means that financial aid will more than cover the cost to attend the school.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Education (Income $30-$48k)

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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