2023 Best Value Teaching Doctor's Degree Schools in South Carolina
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Today's teaching students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools and bootcamps with offerings that you might find attractive.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Teaching Degree Search has created the Best Value Teaching Doctor's Degree Schools in South Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in South Carolina to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for teaching students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
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Top Value Teaching Doctor's Degree Schools in South Carolina
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Our 2023 rankings named Clemson University the best value school in South Carolina for teaching students working on their doctor’s degree. Clemson University is a large public school located in Clemson, South Carolina that handed out 20 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Clemson are $23,246 a year.
Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at Clemson. During the 2019-2020 year, about 69% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Clemson is ranked #2 for overall quality in South Carolina.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Greenville University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in South Carolina list. North Greenville is a private not-for-profit institution located in Tigerville, South Carolina. The school has a small population, and it awarded 6 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at North Greenville are $12,220 per year.
Online graduate courses are available at North Greenville, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 60% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
North Greenville not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in South Carolina list.
The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of South Carolina - Columbia helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value teaching schools in South Carolina. UofSC is a public institution located in Columbia, South Carolina. The school has a large population, and it awarded 99 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UofSC are $30,160 per year.
Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at UofSC. In fact, around 74% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
UofSC also made our Best Teaching Doctor’s Degree Schools in South Carolina list, coming in at #3.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 3 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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