2022 Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Education Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Education is the 35th most popular major in the country with 29,936 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $47,138 and had an average of $29,674 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 3,216 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,306 and $27,810 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 249 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,508 and $17,812 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general education. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general education 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 general education 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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Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Education in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Ivy Tech Community College

Indianapolis, Indiana

#1 in overall quality

$6,919 Average Net Price

$17,901 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ivy Tech Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region list. This large school is located in Indianapolis, Indiana, and it awarded 204 associates’s education degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our great lakes region associate degree education students list, Ivy Tech Community College has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best General Education Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Ivy Tech Community College is $6,919 for great lakes region associate degree education students.

Full Ivy Tech Community College General Education Report

#2

Stark State College

North Canton, Ohio

#2 in overall quality

$6,464 Average Net Price

$18,771 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Stark State College landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in North Canton, Ohio, and it awarded 16 associates’s education degrees in 2019-2020.

Stark State College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best General Education Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Stark State College is $6,464 for Great Lakes Region Associate Degree Education students.

Read full report on General Education at Stark State College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Education

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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