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2022 Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Making $0-$30k

1 Ranked Colleges
63 Degrees Awarded
$18,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor's in New Jersey For Those Making $0-$30k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Education is the 28th most popular major in the country with 29,936 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across New Jersey, there were 826 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 63 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,288 and $24,807 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general education program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Making $0-$30k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for new jersey bachelor’s degree general education students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Education (Income $0-$30k) in New Jersey

#1

Monmouth University

West Long Branch, New Jersey
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Monmouth University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value General Education Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey For Those Making $0-$30k. West Long Branch, New Jersey is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s general education degrees to 56 students in 2019-2020.

Monmouth also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Monmouth University is $18,716 for new jersey bachelor’s degree general education students whose families make $0-$30k.

The low student loan default rate of 3.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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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

  • *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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