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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public/Applied History

6 Ranked Colleges
53 Degrees Awarded
$18,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Public/Applied History Schools for a Bachelor's

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Public/Applied History Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 235 people earned their degree in public/applied history, making the major the 815th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 53 public/applied history graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Public/Applied History Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in public/applied history. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality public/applied history 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 public/applied history 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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Best Value Public/Applied History Schools for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree public/applied history students.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Public/Applied History

#1

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, Michigan
#5 in overall quality
$19,433 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Michigan University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Public/Applied History Schools for a Bachelor’s. WMU is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 12 bachelors’s public/applied history degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at WMU, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Public/Applied History Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $19,433 for bachelor’s degree public/applied history students per year to attend WMU.

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#2

Salem State University

Salem, Massachusetts
#2 in overall quality
$18,399 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Salem State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Public/Applied History Schools for a Bachelor’s list. This medium-sized school is located in Salem, Massachusetts, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s public/applied history degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree public/applied history students list, Salem State has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Public/Applied History Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Salem State is $18,399 for Bachelor’s Degree Public/Applied History students.

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#3

Arkansas Tech University

Russellville, Arkansas
#6 in overall quality
$10,772 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arkansas Tech University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Public/Applied History Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Russellville, Arkansas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s public/applied history degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

ATU also took the #6 spot in our “Best Public/Applied History Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $10,772 for Bachelor’s Degree Public/Applied History students per year to attend Arkansas Tech University.

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#4

Flagler College - St Augustine

Saint Augustine, Florida
#3 in overall quality
$23,237 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Flagler College - St Augustine. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Public/Applied History Schools for a Bachelor’s. Flagler St. Augustine is located in Saint Augustine, Florida and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s public/applied history degrees to qualified students.

Flagler St. Augustine also took the #3 spot in our “Best Public/Applied History Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Flagler College - St Augustine is $23,237 for Bachelor’s Degree Public/Applied History students.

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#5

Central Michigan University

Mount Pleasant, Michigan
#4 in overall quality
$15,981 Average Net Price

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Public/Applied History Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Central Michigan University landed the #5 spot on the list. Central Michigan is a fairly large public school situated in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. It awarded 8 bachelors’s public/applied history degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree public/applied history students list, Central Michigan has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Public/Applied History Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $15,981 for bachelor’s degree public/applied history students per year to attend Central Michigan.

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#6

Baldwin Wallace University

Berea, Ohio
#1 in overall quality
$22,917 Average Net Price

Baldwin Wallace University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Public/Applied History Schools for a Bachelor’s ranking. This small school is located in Berea, Ohio, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s public/applied history degrees in 2019-2020.

Baldwin Wallace College also made our “Best Public/Applied History Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $22,917 for bachelor’s degree public/applied history students per year to attend Baldwin Wallace College.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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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