2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for International Education in the Southeast Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Ed Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 279 people earned their degree in international education, making the major the 302nd most popular in the United States. In , international education graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $48,867 and had an average of $39,297 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 43 international education graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,050 and $8,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 international 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 Ed Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in international education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in international education.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Ed Major in the Southeast Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Ed Major in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Ed Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for International Education in the Southeast Region
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 Ed Major in the Southeast Region list. Vanderbilt is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Nashville, Tennessee. It awarded 2 masters’s international ed degrees 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.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida International University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Ed Major in the Southeast Region list. Florida International University is a large school located in Miami, Florida that handed out 6 masters’s international ed 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%.
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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%.
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- *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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