2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Education in New Hampshire

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in New Hampshire” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 New Hampshire, there were 223 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,650 and $32,493 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 39 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,539 and $15,843 respectively.

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

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general education program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in New Hampshire” list to help you make the college decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in New Hampshire

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

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Education in New Hampshire

#1

NHTI-Concord's Community College

Concord, New Hampshire

#1 in overall quality

$19,717 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend NHTI-Concord’s Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in New Hampshire. NHTI-Concord’s Community College is a public institution located in Concord, New Hampshire. The school has a small population, and it awarded 10 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

NHTI did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Education Associate Degree Schools in New Hampshire” list. The estimated yearly cost for NHTI-Concord’s Community College is $19,717 for New Hampshire Associate Degree Education students.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on General Education at NHTI

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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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