2022 Best Value Colleges for Contemplative Studies/Inquiry. (With Aid)

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 Contemplative Studies/Inquiry. Schools For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

With 3 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, contemplative studies/inquiry is the most popular major in the United States.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great contemplative studies/inquiry programs and 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 contemplative studies/inquiry program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Contemplative Studies/Inquiry. Schools For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for contemplative studies/inquiry. students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Contemplative Studies/Inquiry. (With Aid)

#1

Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$29,392 Average Net Price

$50,614 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Contemplative Studies/Inquiry. Schools For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Brown University landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Providence, Rhode Island, and it awarded 3 ’s contemplative studies/inquiry degrees in 2019-2020.

Brown also took the #1 spot in our “Best Contemplative Studies/Inquiry. Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Brown University is $29,392 for Contemplative Studies/Inquiry. students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Contemplative Studies/Inquiry at Brown

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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