2022 Best Value Publishing Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland 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 Publishing Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 262 people earned their degree in publishing, making the major the 303rd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, publishing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $43,650 and had an average of $54,266 in loans still to pay off.

Across Maryland, there were 1 publishing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 publishing graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,371 and $23,982 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent publishing 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 publishing program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Publishing Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Publishing Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Publishing (Income $0-$30k) in Maryland

#1

McDaniel College

Westminster, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$7,365 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend McDaniel College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Publishing Schools for a Bachelor’s in Maryland For Those Making $0-$30k. McDaniel College is a small school located in Westminster, Maryland that handed out 1 bachelors’s publishing degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at McDaniel, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Publishing Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Maryland” ranking. It costs about $7,365 for Maryland Bachelor’s Degree Publishing students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend McDaniel.

The low student loan default rate of 5.0% 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%.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Publishing (Income $0-$30k) in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Publishing (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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