2022 Best Value Applied and Professional Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s

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 Applied and Professional Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Applied & Professional Ethics is the 1089th most popular major in the country with 130 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 35 applied and professional ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Applied and Professional Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in applied and professional ethics. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality applied and professional ethics programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the applied and professional ethics program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The applied and professional ethics school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Applied and Professional Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s”.

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Best Value Applied and Professional Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Applied and Professional Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Applied & Professional Ethics

#1

Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, Michigan

#2 in overall quality

$19,433 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Michigan University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Applied and Professional Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Western Michigan University is a fairly large school located in Kalamazoo, Michigan that handed out 5 bachelors’s applied and professional ethics degrees in 2019-2020.

WMU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Applied & Professional Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Western Michigan University is $19,433 for Bachelor’s Degree Applied and Professional Ethics students.

Read more about Applied & Professional Ethics at Western Michigan University

#2

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$34,508 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Carnegie Mellon University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Applied and Professional Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s. This fairly large school is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 8 bachelors’s applied and professional ethics degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree applied and professional ethics students list, Carnegie Mellon has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Applied & Professional Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Carnegie Mellon is $34,508 for bachelor’s degree applied and professional ethics students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Carnegie Mellon University Applied & Professional Ethics Report

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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