2023 Best Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Today's teaching students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools and bootcamps that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
The Best Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey ranking is one of many tools that Teaching Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 3 schools in New Jersey to see which ones offered the best value associate 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. 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 Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey
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Our analysis found Essex County College to be the best value school for teaching students who want to pursue a associate degree in New Jersey. Essex is a medium-sized public school situated in Newark, New Jersey. It awarded 83 associate degrees in 2020-2021.
Essex undergraduate students pay an average of $8,966 in tuition and fees each year. By the time they get their associate degree, students from this school have racked up an average of $11,116 in student loans.
Online courses are available at Essex, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 28% took at least some of their classes online.
Essex also took the #1 spot in our Best Teaching Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey rankings.
Out of the 3 schools in New Jersey that were part of this year’s value ranking, Rowan College of South Jersey Gloucester Campus landed the # 2 spot on the list. This medium-sized public school is located in Sewell, New Jersey, and it awarded 102 associate degrees in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at RCSJ are $5,550 per year. By the time they get their associate degree, students from this school have racked up an average of $15,568 in student loans.
RCSJ does have options available for those who want to take online classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. During the 2019-2020 year, about 95% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.
RCSJ also took the #2 spot in our Best Teaching Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey rankings.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Brookdale Community College. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey list. Lincroft, New Jersey is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associate degrees to 126 students in 2020-2021.
Brookdale Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $9,554 in tuition and fees each year. On average, associate degree students take out $15,007 in loans while pursuing their degree.
Online courses are available at Brookdale Community College, 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, 44% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
Brookdale Community College not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Teaching Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey list.
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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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