2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Applied & Professional Ethics in the Middle Atlantic Region

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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied and Professional Ethics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 98 people earned their degree in applied and professional ethics, making the major the 1050th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 48 applied and professional ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 28 applied and professional ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied and Professional Ethics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in applied and professional ethics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their applied and professional ethics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied and Professional Ethics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied and Professional Ethics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Applied & Professional Ethics in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

University of Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Baltimore. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied and Professional Ethics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. This small school is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s applied and professional ethics degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Applied & Professional Ethics at University of Baltimore

2

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#2 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Carnegie Mellon University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied and Professional Ethics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Carnegie Mellon is a fairly large school located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that handed out 12 bachelors’s applied and professional ethics degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate 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. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Applied & Professional Ethics at Carnegie Mellon University

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University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, Maryland

#11 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Maryland - College Park. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied and Professional Ethics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. UMCP is a public institution located in College Park, Maryland. The school has a large population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of Maryland - College Park Applied & Professional Ethics Report

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Ursinus College
Collegeville, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ursinus College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Applied and Professional Ethics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This small school is located in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s applied and professional ethics degrees in 2020-2021.

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 school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Applied & Professional Ethics at Ursinus

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Applied & Professional Ethics

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.