2022 Best Value Social Sciences Schools for an Associate in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Social Sciences Schools for an Associate in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 19,742 people earned their degree in general social sciences, making the major the 51st most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, general social sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $31,665 and had an average of $22,423 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Jersey, there were 676 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,000 and $11,555 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 437 general social sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,475 and $14,203 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Social Sciences Schools for an Associate in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general social sciences. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general social sciences programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general social sciences program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Social Sciences Schools for an Associate in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Social Sciences Schools for an Associate in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in New Jersey (With Aid)

#1

Essex County College

Newark, New Jersey

#2 in overall quality

$11,443 Average Net Price

$24,532 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Essex County College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Social Sciences Schools for an Associate in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid. Newark, New Jersey is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s social sciences degrees to 100 students in 2019-2020.

Essex also made our “Best General Social Sciences Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $11,443 for New Jersey Associate Degree Social Sciences students with aid per year to attend Essex County College.

Full Essex General Social Sciences Report

#2

Brookdale Community College

Lincroft, New Jersey

#1 in overall quality

$9,156 Average Net Price

$24,421 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brookdale Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Social Sciences Schools for an Associate in New Jersey For Those Getting Aid. Brookdale Community College is located in Lincroft, New Jersey and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 330 associates’s social sciences degrees to qualified students.

Brookdale Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Social Sciences Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey” list. It costs about $9,156 for New Jersey Associate Degree Social Sciences students with aid per year to attend Brookdale Community College.

Read more about General Social Sciences at Brookdale Community College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences in the Middle Atlantic Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Social Sciences (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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