2023 Schools Highly Focused on Child Advocacy Major in the New England Region

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In 2020-2021, 485 people earned their degree in child advocacy and policy, making the major the 649th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 35 child advocacy and policy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Child Advocacy Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in child advocacy and policy. That schools that top this list have a program in child advocacy and policy in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools Highly Focused on Child Advocacy Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region child advocacy students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Child Advocacy & Policy in the New England Region

1

Rhode Island College
Providence, Rhode Island

$42,201 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,418 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rhode Island College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Child Advocacy Major in the New England Region. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, this medium-sized public school awarded 28 degrees to qualified ’s child advocacy students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Child Advocacy & Policy at RIC

2

Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

#10 overall quality in New England

$55,473 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,217 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Child Advocacy Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Boston University landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 5 ’s child advocacy degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate 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. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

Full Boston U Child Advocacy & Policy Report

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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

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.

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