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2022 Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s

5 Ranked Colleges
252 Degrees Awarded
$22,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Child Advocacy 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. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 486 people earned their degree in child advocacy and policy, making the major the 685th most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 252 child advocacy and policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in child advocacy and policy. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great child advocacy and policy programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the child advocacy and policy 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 Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Child Advocacy & Policy

#1

Purdue University Global

Indianapolis, Indiana
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University Global landed the #1 spot on the list. Indianapolis, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s child advocacy degrees to 185 students in 2019-2020.

Purdue University Global did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Child Advocacy & Policy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list.

Read more about Child Advocacy & Policy at Purdue University Global

#2

Murray State University

Murray, Kentucky
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Murray State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Murray State University is a public institution located in Murray, Kentucky. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Murray State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Child Advocacy & Policy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Murray State University is $11,390 for Bachelor’s Degree Child Advocacy students.

Read full report on Child Advocacy & Policy at Murray State University

#3

Rhode Island College

Providence, Rhode Island
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rhode Island College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, this medium-sized public school awarded 24 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s child advocacy students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree child advocacy students list, RIC has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Child Advocacy & Policy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Rhode Island College is $10,922 for Bachelor’s Degree Child Advocacy students.

Full RIC Child Advocacy & Policy Report

#4

Texas Christian University

Fort Worth, Texas
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Christian University landed the #4 spot on the list. Texas Christian University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Fort Worth, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 12 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

TCU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Child Advocacy & Policy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Texas Christian University is $36,811 for bachelor’s degree child advocacy students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Child Advocacy & Policy at TCU

#5

Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Child Advocacy Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 1 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s child advocacy students in 2019-2020.

Boston U not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Child Advocacy & Policy Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Boston University is $30,259 for bachelor’s degree child advocacy students.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Child Advocacy & Policy at Boston U

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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