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2022 Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s

4 Ranked Colleges
69 Degrees Awarded
$19,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor's

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Ethics is the 901st most popular major in the country with 152 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

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” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in ethics. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great ethics programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the 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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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree ethics students.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ethics

#1

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 #1 for the Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s. SEBTS is located in Wake Forest, North Carolina and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s ethics degrees to qualified students.

SEBTS also made our “Best Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1.

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 Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Washington - Seattle Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Washington - Seattle Campus is a large public school situated in Seattle, Washington. It awarded 2 bachelors’s ethics degrees 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 estimated yearly cost for UW Seattle is $13,297 for bachelor’s degree ethics students.

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

Read more about Ethics at UW Seattle

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Bothell Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s list. University of Washington - Bothell Campus is located in Bothell, Washington and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 57 bachelors’s ethics degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree ethics students list, UW Bothell has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Washington - Bothell Campus is $11,060 for Bachelor’s Degree Ethics students.

With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Washington - Bothell Campus Ethics Report

#4

Syracuse University

Syracuse, New York
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Syracuse University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Ethics Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Syracuse University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Syracuse, New York. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree ethics students list, Syracuse has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Ethics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $34,482 for Bachelor’s Degree Ethics students per year to attend Syracuse.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 3.3% 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%.

Full Syracuse 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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