2022 Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Education is the 35th most popular major in the country with 29,936 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $47,138 and had an average of $29,674 in loans still to pay off.

Across North Carolina, there were 274 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,575 and $29,518 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 38 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,912 and $18,026 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general education programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general education program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. 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 Education Schools for an Associate in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid

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

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Education in North Carolina (With Aid)

#1

Campbell University

Buies Creek, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$24,544 Average Net Price

$38,289 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Campbell University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid list. Buies Creek, North Carolina is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s education degrees to 35 students in 2019-2020.

Campbell also took the #1 spot in our “Best General Education Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Campbell is $24,544 for North Carolina Associate Degree Education students with aid.

Read more about General Education at Campbell University

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Education (With Aid)

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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