2023 Most Popular Colleges for Deaf Studies in the Southeast Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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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 was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Deaf Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 297 people earned their degree in deaf studies, making the major the 728th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 11 deaf studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Deaf Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in deaf studies. To top this list, a school must have a successful deaf studies program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Deaf Studies Major in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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Most Well Attended Deaf Studies Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region deaf studies students.
Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Deaf Studies in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Piedmont International University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Deaf Studies Major in the Southeast Region. Piedmont International University is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 8 ’s deaf studies degrees to qualified students.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read more about Deaf Studies at Piedmont International University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Deaf Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Knoxville, Tennessee, this large public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified ’s deaf studies students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Deaf Studies at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
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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
- *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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