2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Labor Studies

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Labor Studies is the 995th most popular major in the country with 145 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 5 labor studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Labor Studies Schools for an Associate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in labor studies. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality labor studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the labor studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Labor Studies Schools for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree labor studies students.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Labor Studies

#1

Indiana University - Northwest

Gary, Indiana

#2 in overall quality

$7,755 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Indiana University - Northwest. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Labor Studies Schools for an Associate. Gary, Indiana is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s labor studies degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

IU Northwest also took the #2 spot in our “Best Labor Studies Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend IU Northwest is $7,755 for Associate Degree Labor Studies students.

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#2

Indiana University - Bloomington

Bloomington, Indiana

#1 in overall quality

$13,253 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Labor Studies Schools for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana University - Bloomington landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Bloomington, Indiana, and it awarded 1 associates’s labor studies degrees in 2019-2020.

IU Bloomington also took the #1 spot in our “Best Labor Studies Associate Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $13,253 for Associate Degree Labor Studies students per year to attend IU Bloomington.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%.

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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).
• 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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