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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ethics (Income $0-$30k)

4 Ranked Colleges
69 Degrees Awarded
$10,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking.

In 2019-2020, 152 people earned their degree in ethics, making the major the 901st most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 69 ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in ethics. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent ethics 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 ethics program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ethics (Income $0-$30k)

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Washington - Seattle Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Washington - Seattle Campus is a large public school situated in Seattle, Washington. It awarded 2 bachelors’s ethics degrees in 2019-2020.

UW Seattle also took the #2 spot in our “Best Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $7,850 for Bachelor’s Degree Ethics students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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 Ethics at University of Washington - Seattle Campus

#2

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Wake Forest, North Carolina
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Wake Forest, North Carolina, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s ethics degrees in 2019-2020.

SEBTS not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list.

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 SEBTS Ethics Report

#3

Syracuse University

Syracuse, New York
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Syracuse University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k list. Syracuse is a large school located in Syracuse, New York that handed out 1 bachelors’s ethics degrees in 2019-2020.

Syracuse also made our “Best Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #3. The estimated yearly cost for Syracuse is $17,164 for Bachelor’s Degree Ethics students whose families make $0-$30k.

The low student loan default rate of 3.3% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.

Read more about Ethics at Syracuse University

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Bothell Campus. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k list. Bothell, Washington is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s ethics degrees to 57 students in 2019-2020.

UW Bothell also made our “Best Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #4. It costs about $6,922 for bachelor’s degree ethics students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend University of Washington - Bothell Campus.

With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Ethics at UW Bothell

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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