2022 Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Kentucky

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 Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Kentucky” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Education is the 35th most popular major in the country with 29,936 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $47,138 and had an average of $29,674 in loans still to pay off.

Across Kentucky, there were 137 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,967 and $25,391 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,401 and $24,684 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Kentucky” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general education 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 general education 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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The education school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Kentucky”.

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Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Kentucky

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

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education in Kentucky

#1

Union College Kentucky

Barbourville, Kentucky

#2 in overall quality

$21,771 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Union College Kentucky. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Kentucky list. Union College Kentucky is located in Barbourville, Kentucky and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s education degrees to qualified students.

Union College also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Union College is $21,771 for kentucky bachelor’s degree education students.

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#2

Berea College

Berea, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$5,184 Average Net Price

$27,204 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Berea College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in Kentucky. Located in Berea, Kentucky, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 15 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s education students in 2019-2020.

Berea not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” list. The yearly cost to attend Berea College is $5,184 for Kentucky Bachelor’s Degree Education students.

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 87%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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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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