2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Child Development in the New England Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Doctorate in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Child Development is the 238th most popular major in the country with 4,209 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the New England region, there were 160 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,889 and $109,372 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great child development programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the child development program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Child Development Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Child Development Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Child Development Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Child Development in the New England Region

#1

Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$55,168 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tufts University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Child Development Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region. Tufts University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Medford, Massachusetts. It awarded 5 doctorate’s child development degrees in 2019-2020.

Tufts not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Child Development Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Tufts University are $55,168, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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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