2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Information Technology in Pennsylvania

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 IT Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 28,174 people earned their degree in information technology, making the major the 37th most popular in the United States.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 994 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 31 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent information technology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the information technology 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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The it school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value IT Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania”.

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Best Value IT Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value IT Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Information Technology in Pennsylvania

#1

Peirce College

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$10,128 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value IT Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Peirce College landed the #1 spot on the list. Peirce is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 6 associates’s IT degrees to qualified students.

Peirce did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Information Technology Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. The yearly cost to attend Peirce College is $10,128 for Pennsylvania Associate Degree IT students.

With a freshman retention rate of 100%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Information Technology at Peirce

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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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