2022 Best Value International Relations Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting 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 International Relations Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

International Relations is the 54th most popular major in the country with 13,616 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across North Carolina, there were 117 international relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 34 international relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,192 and $24,368 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality international relations programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the international relations 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value International Relations Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value International Relations Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value International Relations Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for International Relations in North Carolina (With Aid)

#1

Meredith College

Raleigh, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$23,683 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Meredith College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value International Relations Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid list. Meredith is a small school located in Raleigh, North Carolina that handed out 5 bachelors’s international relations degrees in 2019-2020.

Meredith not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best International Relations Bachelor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. It costs about $23,683 for North Carolina Bachelor’s Degree International Relations students with aid per year to attend Meredith College.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 4.5% 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 Meredith International Relations 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

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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