2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Child development in the New England Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 4,209 people earned their degree in child development, making the major the 238th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 160 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 100 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in child development. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality child development 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 child development program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Child development in the New England Region

#1

Goodwin College

East Hartford, Connecticut

#2 in overall quality

$18,290 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Goodwin College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region. Located in East Hartford, Connecticut, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 9 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s child development students in 2019-2020.

Goodwin not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Child Development Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. It costs about $18,290 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Child development students per year to attend Goodwin College.

Read more about Child Development at Goodwin

#2

Post University

Waterbury, Connecticut

#3 in overall quality

$15,653 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Post University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region. Waterbury, Connecticut is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s child development degrees to 50 students in 2019-2020.

Post University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Child Development Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Post University is $15,653 for new england region bachelor’s degree child development students.

Read more about Child Development at Post University

#3

Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$30,744 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Child development Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Tufts University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Medford, Massachusetts, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 26 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s child development students in 2019-2020.

Tufts did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Child Development Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Tufts is $30,744 for new england region bachelor’s degree child development students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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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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