2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Gay/Lesbian Studies (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 63 people earned their degree in gay/lesbian studies, making the major the 1227th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 gay/lesbian studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in gay/lesbian studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent gay/lesbian studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the gay/lesbian studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Gay/Lesbian Studies (With Aid)

#1

Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

#1 in overall quality

$40,126 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Cornell University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Ithaca, New York, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 4 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s gay/lesbian studies students in 2019-2020.

Cornell did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Gay/Lesbian Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Cornell University is $40,126 for bachelor’s degree gay/lesbian studies students with aid.

The low student loan default rate of 1.1% 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%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.

Full Cornell University Gay/Lesbian Studies Report

#2

Mills College

Oakland, California

#2 in overall quality

$22,202 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mills College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid. Mills is a small school located in Oakland, California that handed out 3 bachelors’s gay/lesbian studies degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Mills, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Gay/Lesbian Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Mills College is $22,202 for Bachelor’s Degree Gay/Lesbian Studies students with aid.

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%. The 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.

Read full report on Gay/Lesbian Studies at Mills College

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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