2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Urban Education & Leadership in California (With Aid)

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 Urban Education and Leadership Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Urban Education & Leadership is the 521st most popular major in the country with 810 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across California, there were 272 urban education and leadership graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 urban education and leadership graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,544 and $133,402 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality urban education and leadership 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 urban education and leadership 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 Urban Education and Leadership Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Urban Education and Leadership Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Urban Education & Leadership in California (With Aid)

#1

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California

#1 in overall quality

$48,715 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Urban Education and Leadership Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern California landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Southern California is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Los Angeles, California. It awarded 9 doctorate’s urban education and leadership degrees in 2019-2020.

USC also made our “Best Urban Education & Leadership Doctor’s Degree Schools in California” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Southern California are $48,715, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Urban Education & Leadership at USC

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• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Urban Education & Leadership (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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