2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ethics in the Middle Atlantic Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Ethics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 150 people earned their degree in ethics, making the major the 934th most popular in the United States.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 41 ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 ethics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Ethics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in ethics. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in ethics.
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Most Well Attended Ethics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree ethics students.
Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Ethics in the Middle Atlantic Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Ethics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Syracuse University landed the #1 spot on the list. Syracuse is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Syracuse, New York. It awarded 0 bachelors’s ethics degrees in 2020-2021.
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 undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ursinus College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Ethics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s list. Ursinus is a small school located in Collegeville, Pennsylvania that handed out 0 bachelors’s ethics degrees in 2020-2021.
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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
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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
- *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.