2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in the Middle Atlantic Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Teacher Education is the 97th most popular major in the country with 9,653 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 2,257 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 118 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,642 and $15,171 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in teacher education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in teacher education.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region associate degree teacher education students.

Top 5 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Essex County College
Newark, New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Essex County College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Newark, New Jersey is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s teacher education degrees to 47 students in 2021-2022.

Read full report on Teacher Education at Essex County College

2

Camden County College
Blackwood, New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Camden County College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. This medium-sized school is located in Blackwood, New Jersey, and it awarded 56 associates’s teacher education degrees in 2021-2022.

Read full report on Teacher Education at Camden County College

3

Delaware County Community College
Media, Pennsylvania

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Delaware County Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Media, Pennsylvania, this medium-sized public school awarded 13 degrees to qualified associates’s teacher education students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%.

Read full report on Teacher Education at Delaware County Community College

4

Delaware Technical Community College - Terry
Dover, Delaware

Top 15% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Delaware Technical Community College - Terry landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Dover, Delaware, this fairly large public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified associates’s teacher education students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Teacher Education at Delaware Tech

5

Community College of Beaver County
Monaca, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Community College of Beaver County. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This small school is located in Monaca, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 0 associates’s teacher education degrees in 2021-2022.

Read more about Teacher Education at Community College of Beaver County

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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