2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in New Jersey

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Teacher Education Major in New Jersey” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Teacher Education is the 97th most popular major in the country with 9,949 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across New Jersey, there were 352 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 132 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,217 and $15,066 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in New Jersey” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in teacher education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their teacher education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in New Jersey

The colleges and universities below are the best for new jersey associate degree teacher education students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in New Jersey

1

Essex County College
Newark, New Jersey

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in New Jersey that were part of this year’s ranking, Essex County College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Newark, New Jersey, this medium-sized public school awarded 61 diplomas to qualified associates’s teacher education students in 2020-2021.

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2

Camden County College
Blackwood, New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Camden County College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in New Jersey. Located in Blackwood, New Jersey, this medium-sized public school awarded 71 diplomas to qualified associates’s teacher education students in 2020-2021.

Full Camden County College Teacher Education Report

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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