2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Education in Pennsylvania

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania” ranking.

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 Pennsylvania, there were 1,064 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,409 and $27,324 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 50 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general education 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 general education 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 Education Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania

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

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Education in Pennsylvania

#1

Lehigh Carbon Community College

Schnecksville, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$7,117 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Lehigh Carbon Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Lehigh Carbon Community College is located in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 21 associates’s education degrees to qualified students.

LCCC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Education Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. It costs about $7,117 for pennsylvania associate degree education students per year to attend LCCC.

Read full report on General Education at LCCC

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Education in the Middle Atlantic Region
• 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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