2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Communications Technologies & Support in New Jersey

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Communications Technologies & Support Schools for an Associate in New Jersey” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 15,192 people earned their degree in communications technologies and support, making the major the 32nd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, communications technologies and support graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $25,122 and had an average of $26,383 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Jersey, there were 322 communications technologies and support graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,000 and $21,500 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 161 communications technologies and support graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,475 and $14,203 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Communications Technologies & Support Schools for an Associate in New Jersey” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in communications technologies and support. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality communications technologies and support programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the communications technologies and support program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Communications Technologies & Support Schools for an Associate in New Jersey” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Communications Technologies & Support Schools for an Associate in New Jersey

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Communications Technologies & Support Schools for an Associate in New Jersey.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Communications Technologies & Support in New Jersey

#1

Middlesex County College

Edison, New Jersey

#1 in overall quality

$6,649 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Middlesex County College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Communications Technologies & Support Schools for an Associate in New Jersey. Middlesex County College is a fairly large public school situated in Edison, New Jersey. It awarded 47 associates’s communications technologies and support degrees in 2019-2020.

Middlesex County College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Communications Technologies & Support Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey” ranking. It costs about $6,649 for New Jersey Associate Degree Communications Technologies & Support students per year to attend Middlesex County College.

Read full report on Communications Technologies & Support at Middlesex County College

#2

Ocean County College

Toms River, New Jersey

#2 in overall quality

$12,243 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ocean County College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Communications Technologies & Support Schools for an Associate in New Jersey list. Toms River, New Jersey is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s communications technologies and support degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

OCC also took the #2 spot in our “Best Communications Technologies & Support Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Ocean County College is $12,243 for New Jersey Associate Degree Communications Technologies & Support students.

Read more about Communications Technologies & Support at OCC

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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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