by our College Data Analytics Team
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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Education Major in New York” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Education is the 41st most popular major in the country with 29,810 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $48,719 and had an average of $23,394 in loans still to pay off.
Across New York, there were 607 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,242 and $25,584 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 49 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,256 and $16,406 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Education Major in New York” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Education Major in New York” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Education Major in New York”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend LaGuardia Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Education Major in New York. Long Island City, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s education degrees to 33 students in 2020-2021.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY Empire State College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Education Major in New York list. SUNY Empire State College is a medium-sized school located in Saratoga Springs, New York that handed out 16 associates’s education degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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