2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Labor & Industrial Relations

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 Labor Relations Schools for an Associate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 1,903 people earned their degree in labor and industrial relations, making the major the 296th most popular in the United States.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 158 labor and industrial relations graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great labor and industrial relations programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the labor and industrial relations 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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Best Value Labor Relations Schools for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Labor Relations Schools for an Associate.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Labor & Industrial Relations

#1

SUNY Empire State College

Saratoga Springs, New York

#1 in overall quality

$12,142 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY Empire State College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Labor Relations Schools for an Associate. Located in Saratoga Springs, New York, this fairly large public school awarded 138 diplomas to qualified associates’s labor relations students in 2019-2020.

SUNY Empire did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Labor & Industrial Relations Associate Degree Schools” list. It costs about $12,142 for associate degree labor relations students per year to attend SUNY Empire State College.

Read more about Labor & Industrial Relations at SUNY Empire State College

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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