2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Early Childhood and Family Studies (With Aid)

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In 2019-2020, 324 early childhood and family studies students received their degree, making the major the most popular in the country.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 258 early childhood and family studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Early Childhood and Family Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in early childhood and family studies. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality early childhood and family studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the early childhood and family studies 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 Early Childhood and Family Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree early childhood and family studies students with aid.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Early Childhood and Family Studies (With Aid)

#1

Eastern Michigan University

Ypsilanti, Michigan

#2 in overall quality

$15,924 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Michigan University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Early Childhood and Family Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid. This fairly large school is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s early childhood and family studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Eastern Michigan did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Early Childhood and Family Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $15,924 for Bachelor’s Degree Early Childhood and Family Studies students with aid per year to attend Eastern Michigan.

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#2

American Public University System

Charles Town, West Virginia

#3 in overall quality

$10,222 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend American Public University System. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Early Childhood and Family Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid. Charles Town, West Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s early childhood and family studies degrees to 157 students in 2019-2020.

American Military University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Early Childhood and Family Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $10,222 for Bachelor’s Degree Early Childhood and Family Studies students with aid per year to attend American Military University.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 98%.

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#3

The University of Alabama

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$22,597 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Early Childhood and Family Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Alabama landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, this large public school handed out 48 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s early childhood and family studies students in 2019-2020.

UA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Early Childhood and Family Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $22,597 for bachelor’s degree early childhood and family studies students with aid per year to attend UA.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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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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