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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Bioethics/Medical Ethics (With Aid)

9 Ranked Colleges
277 Degrees Awarded
$27,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Bioethics/Medical Ethics is the 278th most popular major in the country with 4,219 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, bioethics/medical ethics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $49,700 and had an average of $56,912 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 277 bioethics/medical ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 9 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in bioethics/medical ethics. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality bioethics/medical ethics 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 bioethics/medical ethics 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 Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid.

Top 9 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Bioethics/Medical Ethics (With Aid)

#7 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at San Antonio. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. UTSA is located in San Antonio, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 140 bachelors’s medical ethics degrees to qualified students.

UTSA not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #7 on our “Best Bioethics/Medical Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for The University of Texas at San Antonio is $13,853 for bachelor’s degree medical ethics students with aid.

Read full report on Bioethics/Medical Ethics at The University of Texas at San Antonio

#2

University of Richmond

University of Richmond, Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Richmond. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid. University of Richmond is a small private not-for-profit school situated in University of Richmond, Virginia. It awarded 25 bachelors’s medical ethics degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at URichmond, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Bioethics/Medical Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for URichmond is $25,838 for bachelor’s degree medical ethics students with aid.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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#8 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Houston Baptist University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. Houston Baptist University is located in Houston, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 18 bachelors’s medical ethics degrees to qualified students.

HBU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #8 on our “Best Bioethics/Medical Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend HBU is $19,962 for Bachelor’s Degree Medical Ethics students with aid.

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#4

Hiram College

Hiram, Ohio
#9 in overall quality

Out of the 9 schools in the Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Hiram College landed the #4 spot on the list. Hiram is a private not-for-profit institution located in Hiram, Ohio. The school has a small population, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Hiram also made our “Best Bioethics/Medical Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #9. It costs about $21,294 for bachelor’s degree medical ethics students with aid per year to attend Hiram College.

Full Hiram Bioethics/Medical Ethics Report

#5

Misericordia University

Dallas, Pennsylvania
#6 in overall quality

Out of the 9 schools in the Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Misericordia University landed the #5 spot on the list. Dallas, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s medical ethics degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

Misericordia University also took the #6 spot in our “Best Bioethics/Medical Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $25,510 for Bachelor’s Degree Medical Ethics students with aid per year to attend Misericordia University.

The low student loan default rate of 4.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Misericordia University Bioethics/Medical Ethics Report

#6

Saint Louis University

Saint Louis, Missouri
#5 in overall quality

Saint Louis University landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid ranking. SLU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Saint Louis, Missouri. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at SLU, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Bioethics/Medical Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend SLU is $28,188 for Bachelor’s Degree Medical Ethics students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

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#7

University of Miami

Coral Gables, Florida
#4 in overall quality

University of Miami ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. Coral Gables, Florida is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s medical ethics degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

U Miami did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Bioethics/Medical Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $46,949 for bachelor’s degree medical ethics students with aid per year to attend University of Miami.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Bioethics/Medical Ethics at University of Miami

#8

University of Rochester

Rochester, New York
#2 in overall quality

University of Rochester came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid ranking. Located in Rochester, New York, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 6 degrees to qualified bachelors’s medical ethics students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree medical ethics students with aid list, University of Rochester has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Bioethics/Medical Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Rochester is $29,522 for bachelor’s degree medical ethics students with aid.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Rochester Bioethics/Medical Ethics Report

#9

Baylor University

Waco, Texas
#3 in overall quality

Baylor University came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Medical Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid ranking. Located in Waco, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 52 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s medical ethics students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Baylor, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Bioethics/Medical Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Baylor University is $36,039 for bachelor’s degree medical ethics students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, 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 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Bioethics/Medical Ethics at Baylor University

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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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