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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ethics (Income $30-$48k)

4 Ranked Colleges
69 Degrees Awarded
$12,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Making $30-$48k

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 “Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 152 people earned their degree in ethics, making the major the 901st most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 69 ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in ethics. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent ethics programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the ethics program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree ethics students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ethics (Income $30-$48k)

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Washington - Seattle Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Seattle, Washington, this large public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s ethics students in 2019-2020.

UW Seattle did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend UW Seattle is $7,467 for bachelor’s degree ethics students whose families make $30-$48k.

The low student loan default rate of 2.2% 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full University of Washington - Seattle Campus Ethics Report

#2

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Wake Forest, North Carolina
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k. Located in Wake Forest, North Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s ethics students in 2019-2020.

SEBTS not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Ethics at SEBTS

#3

Syracuse University

Syracuse, New York
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Syracuse University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k. Syracuse is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Syracuse, New York. It awarded 1 bachelors’s ethics degrees in 2019-2020.

Syracuse also took the #3 spot in our “Best Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $21,360 for Bachelor’s Degree Ethics students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Syracuse.

With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Syracuse University Ethics Report

#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Washington - Bothell Campus. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $30-$48k. UW Bothell is a medium-sized school located in Bothell, Washington that handed out 57 bachelors’s ethics degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UW Bothell, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Washington - Bothell Campus is $8,355 for Bachelor’s Degree Ethics students whose families make $30-$48k.

The low student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full UW Bothell 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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