2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Rhetoric & Composition in the New England Region (With Aid)

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 “Best Value Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 2,482 people earned their degree in rhetoric and composition, making the major the 232nd most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 25 rhetoric and composition graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 rhetoric and composition graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent rhetoric and composition 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 rhetoric and composition 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 Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Rhetoric & Composition in the New England Region (With Aid)

#1

Bates College

Lewiston, Maine

#1 in overall quality

$29,321 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Rhetoric and Composition Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Bates College landed the #1 spot on the list. Bates College is a small school located in Lewiston, Maine that handed out 23 bachelors’s rhetoric and composition degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Bates, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Rhetoric & Composition Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Bates is $29,321 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Rhetoric and Composition students with aid.

The student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

Read more about Rhetoric & Composition at Bates College

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Rhetoric & Composition (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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