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2022 Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k

4 Ranked Colleges
252 Degrees Awarded
$12,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Making $0-$30k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Child Advocacy & Policy is the 685th most popular major in the country with 486 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 252 child advocacy and policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in child advocacy and policy. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality child advocacy and policy 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 child advocacy and policy program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree child advocacy students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Child Advocacy & Policy (Income $0-$30k)

#1

Rhode Island College

Providence, Rhode Island
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Rhode Island College landed the #1 spot on the list. RIC is a medium-sized school located in Providence, Rhode Island that handed out 24 bachelors’s child advocacy degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at RIC, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Child Advocacy & Policy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Rhode Island College is $7,691 for Bachelor’s Degree Child Advocacy students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read full report on Child Advocacy & Policy at RIC

#2

Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Boston University landed the #2 spot on the list. Boston University is a large school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 1 bachelors’s child advocacy degrees in 2019-2020.

Boston U also made our “Best Child Advocacy & Policy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $12,903 for bachelor’s degree child advocacy students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Boston University.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 1.4% 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.

Read full report on Child Advocacy & Policy at Boston U

#3

Murray State University

Murray, Kentucky
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Murray State University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k list. This medium-sized school is located in Murray, Kentucky, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s child advocacy degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree child advocacy students whose families make $0-$30k list, Murray State has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Child Advocacy & Policy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Murray State is $8,839 for bachelor’s degree child advocacy students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read more about Child Advocacy & Policy at Murray State University

#4

Texas Christian University

Fort Worth, Texas
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Christian University landed the #4 spot on the list. Texas Christian University is located in Fort Worth, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 12 bachelors’s child advocacy degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree child advocacy students whose families make $0-$30k list, TCU has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Child Advocacy & Policy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $21,286 for bachelor’s degree child advocacy students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend TCU.

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 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Child Advocacy & Policy at Texas Christian University

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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