2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Woodworking (Income $48-$75k)

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Woodworking Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Woodworking is the 322nd most popular major in the country with 609 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, woodworking graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $27,000 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 36 woodworking graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality woodworking programs that also have a lower cost than 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 woodworking program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Woodworking Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree woodworking students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Woodworking (Income $48-$75k)

#1

Rhode Island School of Design

Providence, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$41,245 Average Net Price

$29,685 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Woodworking Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Rhode Island School of Design landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 21 degrees to qualified bachelors’s woodworking students in 2019-2020.

RISD also took the #1 spot in our “Best Woodworking Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $41,245 for bachelor’s degree woodworking students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend RISD.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Woodworking at RISD

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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