2022 Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Teacher Education is the 110th most popular major in the country with 8,205 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across District of Columbia, there were 3 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,446 and $25,767 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality teacher 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 teacher education 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in District of Columbia

#1

American University

Washington, District of Columbia

#1 in overall quality

$43,451 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Teacher Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, American University landed the #1 spot on the list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s teacher education degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

The American University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Teacher Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” list. The yearly cost to attend The American University is $43,451 for district of columbia bachelor’s degree teacher education students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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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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