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2022 Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k

5 Ranked Colleges
71 Degrees Awarded
$17,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor's in Pennsylvania 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 Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Teacher Education is the 110th most popular major in the country with 8,205 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 183 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 71 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in teacher education. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent teacher education programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the teacher education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree teacher education students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education (Income $0-$30k) in Pennsylvania

#1

Juniata College

Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Juniata College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s teacher education degrees in 2019-2020.

Juniata not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Teacher Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. The estimated yearly cost for Juniata is $16,815 for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree teacher education students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Teacher Education at Juniata

#2

Clarks Summit University

South Abington Township, Pennsylvania
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Clarks Summit University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k. Clarks Summit University is a small school located in South Abington Township, Pennsylvania that handed out 9 bachelors’s teacher education degrees in 2019-2020.

CSU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Teacher Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. The yearly cost to attend CSU is $15,879 for Pennsylvania Bachelor’s Degree Teacher Education students whose families make $0-$30k.

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#3

Geneva College

Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Geneva College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k list. Geneva College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 19 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Geneva also took the #4 spot in our “Best Teacher Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking. It costs about $16,158 for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree teacher education students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Geneva.

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#4

Gannon University

Erie, Pennsylvania
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Gannon University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k. Gannon University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Erie, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Gannon also made our “Best Teacher Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $16,984 for Pennsylvania Bachelor’s Degree Teacher Education students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Gannon.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Teacher Education at Gannon University

#5

Gwynedd Mercy University

Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Gwynedd Mercy University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania For Those Making $0-$30k. Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s teacher education degrees to 23 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Gwynedd - Mercy, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Teacher Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Gwynedd - Mercy is $20,979 for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree teacher education students whose families make $0-$30k.

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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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