2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Gay/Lesbian Studies in the Far Western US Region (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across the Far Western US region, 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 $38,083 and $22,209 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality gay/lesbian studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the gay/lesbian studies program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Gay/Lesbian Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region bachelor’s degree gay/lesbian studies students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Gay/Lesbian Studies in the Far Western US Region (With Aid)

#1

Mills College

Oakland, California

#1 in overall quality

$22,202 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 the Far Western US Region For Those Getting Aid list. Mills College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Oakland, California. It awarded 3 bachelors’s gay/lesbian studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Mills also took the #1 spot in our “Best Gay/Lesbian Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Mills College is $22,202 for Far Western US Region Bachelor’s Degree Gay/Lesbian Studies students with aid.

The low student loan default rate of 2.3% 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 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Gay/Lesbian Studies at Mills College

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

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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