2023 Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Physical Sciences for an Associate
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Ranked Colleges
223
Degrees Awarded
$28,720
Avg Salary
Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Physical Sciences for an Associate” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Physical Sciences is the 19th most popular major in the country with 50,306 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, physical sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $39,880 and had an average of $22,620 in loans still to pay off.
Across New Jersey, there were 1,090 physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,191 and $24,167 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 223 physical sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,217 and $15,066 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality physical sciences programs as well as strong veteran support.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the physical sciences program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Physical Sciences for an Associate
The colleges and universities below are the best for new jersey associate degree vets studying physical sciences.
Top 1 Best Physical Sciences Associate Degree Colleges for Veterans in New Jersey
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Physical Sciences for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Middlesex County College landed the #1 spot on the list. Middlesex County College is a medium-sized school located in Edison, New Jersey that handed out 207 associates’s physical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.
Middlesex County College also made our “Best Physical Sciences Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey” list, coming in at #1.Our most recent data shows that 147 of the 10,084 students enrolled at Middlesex County College were GI Bill® students, of which 90 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $1,838. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received funds through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Middlesex County College does offer credit for military training for eligible students.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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