2023 Best Value Teaching Doctor's Degree Schools in Kentucky
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices
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The Best Value Teaching Doctor's Degree Schools in Kentucky ranking is one of many tools that Teaching Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 10 schools in Kentucky to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for teaching students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
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Top Value Teaching Doctor's Degree Schools in Kentucky
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Our 2023 rankings named University of the Cumberlands the best value school in Kentucky for teaching students working on their doctor’s degree. Cumberlands is located in Williamsburg, Kentucky and has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 94 doctor’s degrees to qualified students.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Cumberlands are $4,582 a year.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at Cumberlands. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 99% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
Cumberlands also made our Best Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky list, coming in at #5.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Murray State University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky list. Located in Murray, Kentucky, the medium-sized public school handed out 18 doctor’s degree awards in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Murray State are $14,544 a year.
Murray State does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 60% took at least some of their classes online.
Murray State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky list.
The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Northern Kentucky University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value teaching schools in Kentucky. NKU is a fairly large public school situated in Highland Heights, Kentucky. It awarded 21 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at NKU are $15,594 a year.
NKU does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. During the 2019-2020 year, about 96% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Bellarmine University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky list. Louisville, Kentucky is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctor’s degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.
Bellarmine U graduate students pay an average of $13,652 in tuition and fees each year.
Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at Bellarmine U. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 38% took at least some of their classes online.
Bellarmine U also took the #1 spot in our Best Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky rankings.
The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of Kentucky helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value teaching schools in Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctor’s degrees to 47 students in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UK are $33,548 per year.
UK does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. In fact, around 57% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
UK also made our Best Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky list, coming in at #2.
Morehead State University landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree teaching programs. Morehead, Kentucky is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctor’s degrees to 17 students in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Morehead State University are $10,557 a year.
One thing to take note of is that Morehead State University does offer online graduate classes in some areas. In fact, around 96% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
With a ranking of #7, University of Louisville did quite well on this year’s best value schools for teaching students working on their doctor’s degree. University of Louisville is a large public school located in Louisville, Kentucky that handed out 35 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UofL are $27,839 a year.
Online graduate courses are available at UofL, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. In 2019-2020 about 68% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
UofL not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky list.
With a ranking of #8, Spalding University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for teaching students working on their doctor’s degree. Spalding is located in Louisville, Kentucky and has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 doctor’s degrees to qualified students.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Spalding are $12,106 a year.
Spalding does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. In fact, around 65% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
Eastern Kentucky University landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree teaching programs. Eastern is located in Richmond, Kentucky and has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 15 doctor’s degrees to qualified students.
Eastern graduate students pay an average of $13,800 in tuition and fees each year.
Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at Eastern. During the 2019-2020 year, about 79% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
Western Kentucky University came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky ranking. WKU is located in Bowling Green, Kentucky and has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 12 doctor’s degrees to qualified students.
WKU graduate students pay an average of $18,340 in tuition and fees each year.
Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at WKU. In 2019-2020 about 81% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
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Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 10 schools only.
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%.
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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