2022 Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Elementary Education is the 19th most popular major in the country with 40,622 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 4,705 elementary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 376 elementary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,733 and $16,201 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in elementary education. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great elementary education programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the elementary education program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region.
Top 6 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Elementary Education in the Middle Atlantic Region
Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Delaware Technical Community College - Terry landed the #1 spot on the list. Delaware Tech is a fairly large school located in Dover, Delaware that handed out 106 associates’s elementary teaching degrees in 2019-2020.
Delaware Tech also made our “Best Elementary Education Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $8,824 for middle atlantic region associate degree elementary teaching students per year to attend Delaware Technical Community College - Terry.
Full Delaware Technical Community College - Terry Elementary Education Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Community College of Philadelphia. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Community College of Philadelphia is a fairly large school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that handed out 55 associates’s elementary teaching degrees in 2019-2020.
Community College of Philadelphia also took the #3 spot in our “Best Elementary Education Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $7,165 for Middle Atlantic Region Associate Degree Elementary Teaching students per year to attend Community College of Philadelphia.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Montgomery County Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, this medium-sized public school awarded 40 diplomas to qualified associates’s elementary teaching students in 2019-2020.
Montco also took the #4 spot in our “Best Elementary Education Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $9,251 for Middle Atlantic Region Associate Degree Elementary Teaching students per year to attend Montco.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region. Edinboro is located in Edinboro, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 13 associates’s elementary teaching degrees to qualified students.
Edinboro also took the #5 spot in our “Best Elementary Education Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $16,833 for Middle Atlantic Region Associate Degree Elementary Teaching students per year to attend Edinboro.
Full Edinboro University of Pennsylvania Elementary Education Report
Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Community College of Baltimore County landed the #5 spot on the list. Community College of Baltimore County is located in Baltimore, Maryland and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 5 associates’s elementary teaching degrees to qualified students.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at CCBC, the school also landed the #6 spot in our “Best Elementary Education Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $8,242 for middle atlantic region associate degree elementary teaching students per year to attend Community College of Baltimore County.
With a ranking of #6, University of Delaware did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Elementary Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region list. UD is a large school located in Newark, Delaware that handed out 10 associates’s elementary teaching degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UD, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Elementary Education Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $17,220 for Middle Atlantic Region Associate Degree Elementary Teaching students per year to attend University of Delaware.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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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