by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the New England Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 4,641 people earned their degree in child development, making the major the 239th most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 183 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 130 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in child development. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in child development.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree child development students.
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Post University landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Waterbury, Connecticut, and it awarded 77 bachelors’s child development degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Colby - Sawyer College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the New England Region. Colby - Sawyer is a small private not-for-profit school situated in New London, New Hampshire. It awarded 5 bachelors’s child development degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Charter Oak State College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the New England Region list. Charter Oak State College is a small public school situated in New Britain, Connecticut. It awarded 7 bachelors’s child development degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Child Development at Charter Oak State College
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tufts University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the New England Region list. Tufts is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Medford, Massachusetts. It awarded 34 bachelors’s child development degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Saint Joseph. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the New England Region list. USJ is located in West Hartford, Connecticut and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s child development degrees to qualified students.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Goodwin College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the New England Region ranking. Goodwin College is located in East Hartford, Connecticut and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s child development degrees to qualified students.
Merrimack College landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the New England Region ranking. Merrimack College is a medium-sized school located in North Andover, Massachusetts that handed out 0 bachelors’s child development degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Bennington College ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Child Development Major in the New England Region list. Bennington, Vermont is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s child development degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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