2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southeast Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Portuguese is the 1010th most popular major in the country with 77 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 7 portuguese graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 portuguese graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in portuguese. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in portuguese.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree portuguese students.
Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Portuguese in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida International University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southeast Region. Florida International University is a public institution located in Miami, Florida. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s 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%.
Read full report on Portuguese at Florida International University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Florida. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Gainesville, Florida, this large public school handed out 2 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s portuguese students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%.
Full UF Portuguese Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tulane University of Louisiana. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southeast Region list. This fairly large school is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s portuguese degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read more about Portuguese at Tulane University of Louisiana
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Portuguese Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Duke University landed the #3 spot on the list. Duke is located in Durham, North Carolina and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s portuguese degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 98%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Full Duke University Portuguese Report
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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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