2022 Best Value Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $0-$30k

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 “Best Value Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Gay/Lesbian Studies is the 1227th most popular major in the country with 63 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across California, there were 9 gay/lesbian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 gay/lesbian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,907 and $21,546 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great gay/lesbian studies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the gay/lesbian studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 “Best Value Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for california bachelor’s degree gay/lesbian studies students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Gay/Lesbian Studies (Income $0-$30k) in California

#1

Mills College

Oakland, California

#1 in overall quality

$15,749 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mills College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $0-$30k list. Oakland, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s gay/lesbian studies degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

Mills also took the #1 spot in our “Best Gay/Lesbian Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Mills is $15,749 for california bachelor’s degree gay/lesbian studies students whose families make $0-$30k.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Gay/Lesbian Studies at Mills College

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Gay/Lesbian Studies (Income $0-$30k) in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Gay/Lesbian Studies (Income $0-$30k)

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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