2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Educational Assessment

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Assessment Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Educational Assessment is the 217th most popular major in the country with 1,863 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, educational assessment graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $50,220 and had an average of $33,307 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 728 educational assessment graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Assessment Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in educational assessment. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality educational assessment 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 educational assessment program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Assessment Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Assessment Schools for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree assessment students.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Educational Assessment

#1

Western Governors University

Salt Lake City, Utah

#3 in overall quality

$9,805 Average Net Price

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Assessment Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Governors University landed the #1 spot on the list. Salt Lake City, Utah is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s assessment degrees to 571 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree assessment students list, WGU has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Educational Assessment Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $9,805 for Bachelor’s Degree Assessment students per year to attend WGU.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Educational Assessment at Western Governors University

#3

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

#2 in overall quality

$15,016 Average Net Price

$27,222 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Assessment Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Tucson, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s assessment degrees to 84 students in 2019-2020.

University of Arizona did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Educational Assessment Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Arizona is $15,016 for bachelor’s degree assessment students.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Educational Assessment at University of Arizona

#4

Point Park University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#4 in overall quality

$21,470 Average Net Price

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Assessment Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Point Park University landed the #4 spot on the list. Point Park University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It awarded 7 bachelors’s assessment degrees in 2019-2020.

Point Park did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Educational Assessment Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Point Park is $21,470 for Bachelor’s Degree Assessment students.

Read more about Educational Assessment at Point Park University

#5

Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$24,664 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwestern University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Assessment Schools for a Bachelor’s. Northwestern University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Evanston, Illinois. It awarded 7 bachelors’s assessment degrees in 2019-2020.

Northwestern not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Educational Assessment Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $24,664 for bachelor’s degree assessment students per year to attend Northwestern University.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Northwestern University Educational Assessment 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to US Navy Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Paul J. Phelps.

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