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2022 Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k

4 Ranked Colleges
252 Degrees Awarded
$13,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Making $30-$48k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 486 people earned their degree in child advocacy and policy, making the major the 685th most popular in the United States.

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.

For this year’s “Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the child advocacy and policy program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Child Advocacy & Policy (Income $30-$48k)

#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 $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Rhode Island College landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Providence, Rhode Island, and it awarded 24 bachelors’s child advocacy degrees in 2019-2020.

RIC also took the #3 spot in our “Best Child Advocacy & Policy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for RIC is $8,961 for Bachelor’s Degree Child Advocacy students whose families make $30-$48k.

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 $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Boston University landed the #2 spot on the list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s child advocacy degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Boston U also took the #2 spot in our “Best Child Advocacy & Policy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Boston U is $13,256 for Bachelor’s Degree Child Advocacy students whose families make $30-$48k.

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%. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Boston University Child Advocacy & Policy Report

#3

Murray State University

Murray, Kentucky
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Murray State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Murray State is a public institution located in Murray, Kentucky. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Murray State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Child Advocacy & Policy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Murray State is $9,185 for bachelor’s degree child advocacy students whose families make $30-$48k.

Read full report on Child Advocacy & Policy at Murray State

#4

Texas Christian University

Fort Worth, Texas
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Christian University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k list. TCU is a fairly large school located in Fort Worth, Texas that handed out 12 bachelors’s child advocacy degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree child advocacy students whose families make $30-$48k list, TCU has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Child Advocacy & Policy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Texas Christian University is $23,246 for Bachelor’s Degree Child Advocacy students whose families make $30-$48k.

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%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full Texas Christian University Child Advocacy & Policy Report

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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