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2022 Best Value Science, Tech & Society Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $30-$48k

1 Ranked Colleges
76 Degrees Awarded
$8,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Science, Tech & Society Schools for a Bachelor's in District of Columbia For Those Making $30-$48k

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 Science, Tech & Society Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Science, Technology & Society is the 225th most popular major in the country with 1,072 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, science, technology and society graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $52,000 and had an average of $27,321 in loans still to pay off.

Across District of Columbia, there were 134 science, technology and society graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,450 and $55,275 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 76 science, technology and society graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,446 and $25,767 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great science, technology and society programs and cost less that 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 science, technology and society program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Science, Tech & Society Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Science, Tech & Society Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Science, Technology & Society (Income $30-$48k) in District of Columbia

#1

Georgetown University

Washington, District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgetown University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Science, Tech & Society Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia For Those Making $30-$48k list. Georgetown University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 76 bachelors’s science, tech and society degrees in 2019-2020.

Georgetown also took the #1 spot in our “Best Science, Technology & Society Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Georgetown is $8,678 for district of columbia bachelor’s degree science, tech & society students whose families make $30-$48k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, 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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