2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Labor Studies
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In 2019-2020, 145 people earned their degree in labor studies, making the major the 995th most popular in the United States.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 54 labor studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value Labor Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 9 colleges that offer a degree in labor studies. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great labor studies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the labor studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Labor Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Labor Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s.
Top 9 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Labor Studies
Out of the 9 schools in the Best Value Labor Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Queens College landed the #1 spot on the list. Queens College is a public institution located in Queens, New York. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree labor studies students list, QC has also earned the #6 rank in our “Best Labor Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend QC is $3,067 for bachelor’s degree labor studies students.
The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend San Francisco State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Labor Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s list. San Francisco, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s labor studies degrees to 13 students in 2019-2020.
SFSU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Labor Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend SFSU is $15,113 for Bachelor’s Degree Labor Studies students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California State University - Dominguez Hills. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Labor Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Carson, California, this fairly large public school awarded 5 degrees to qualified bachelors’s labor studies students in 2019-2020.
CSUDH did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #7 on our “Best Labor Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $4,215 for Bachelor’s Degree Labor Studies students per year to attend California State University - Dominguez Hills.
The low student loan default rate of 2.6% 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%.
Out of the 9 schools in the Best Value Labor Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana University - Northwest landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Gary, Indiana, this small public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s labor studies students in 2019-2020.
IU Northwest did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #9 on our “Best Labor Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend IU Northwest is $7,755 for Bachelor’s Degree Labor Studies students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Indiana University - South Bend. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Labor Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s. Indiana University - South Bend is a small public school situated in South Bend, Indiana. It awarded 1 bachelors’s labor studies degrees in 2019-2020.
Indiana University - South Bend also made our “Best Labor Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #8. The yearly cost to attend Indiana University - South Bend is $8,717 for bachelor’s degree labor studies students.
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Wayne State University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Labor Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s ranking. Wayne State University is a public institution located in Detroit, Michigan. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree labor studies students list, Wayne State has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Labor Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $13,965 for bachelor’s degree labor studies students per year to attend Wayne State.
With a ranking of #7, Eastern Connecticut State University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Labor Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Eastern Connecticut State University is a small public school situated in Willimantic, Connecticut. It awarded 11 bachelors’s labor studies degrees in 2019-2020.
ECSU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Labor Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Eastern Connecticut State University is $18,618 for bachelor’s degree labor studies students.
Indiana University - Bloomington landed the #8 spot on the 2022 Best Value Labor Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s ranking. IU Bloomington is a large public school situated in Bloomington, Indiana. It awarded 1 bachelors’s labor studies degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree labor studies students list, IU Bloomington has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Labor Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $13,253 for bachelor’s degree labor studies students per year to attend Indiana University - Bloomington.
The student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.
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University of California - Los Angeles did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Labor Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s ranking, coming in at #9. This large school is located in Los Angeles, California, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s labor studies degrees in 2019-2020.
UCLA not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Labor Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $14,279 for Bachelor’s Degree Labor Studies students per year to attend University of California - Los Angeles.
With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 1.0% 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%.
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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
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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