2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Educational Psychology in the Middle Atlantic Region
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Educational Psychology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Educational Psychology is the 309th most popular major in the country with 1,980 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 232 educational psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 educational psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,660 and $23,761 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Educational Psychology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in educational psychology. That schools that top this list have a program in educational psychology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Educational Psychology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree educational psychology students.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Educational Psychology in the Middle Atlantic Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Educational Psychology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Pitt is a large school located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that handed out 31 bachelors’s educational psychology degrees in 2021-2022.
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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Pitt Educational Psychology Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Vincent College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Educational Psychology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This small school is located in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s educational psychology degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Educational Psychology at Saint Vincent
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Educational Psychology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Marist College landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Poughkeepsie, New York, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s educational psychology degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.
