2022 Best Value Child development Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Child development Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 4,209 people earned their degree in child development, making the major the 238th most popular in the United States.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,680 and $116,043 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Child development Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in child development. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent child development programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the child development program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Child development Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for doctor’s degree child development students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Child development (Income $0-$30k)

#1

Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$55,168 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tufts University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Child development Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k list. Tufts is a fairly large school located in Medford, Massachusetts that handed out 5 doctorate’s child development degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Tufts, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Child Development Doctor’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Tufts University are $55,168, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Tufts Child Development Report

#2

Texas Woman's University

Denton, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$14,962 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Child development Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Woman’s University landed the #2 spot on the list. Texas Woman’s University is located in Denton, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 doctorate’s child development degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at TWU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Child Development Doctor’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Texas Woman’s University are $14,962, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Child Development at TWU

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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