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2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Construction in Pennsylvania (With Aid)

1 Ranked Colleges
4 Degrees Awarded
$12,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Construction Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Construction Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 2,597 people earned their degree in construction, making the major the 282nd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, construction graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,450 and had an average of $9,879 in loans still to pay off.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 5 construction graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 4 construction graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great construction programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the construction program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Construction Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Construction Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Construction Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Construction in Pennsylvania (With Aid)

#1

Harrisburg Area Community College

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harrisburg Area Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Construction Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania For Those Getting Aid. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s construction degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

HACC also made our “Best Construction Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $11,990 for pennsylvania associate degree construction students with aid per year to attend HACC.

Read full report on Construction at HACC

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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