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2022 Best Value Consumer Economics Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
11 Degrees Awarded
$5,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Consumer Economics Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Consumer Economics Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Family & Consumer Economics is the 202nd most popular major in the country with 1,530 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, family and consumer economics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $35,290 and had an average of $24,968 in loans still to pay off.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 family and consumer economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great family and consumer economics 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 family and consumer economics program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Consumer Economics Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Consumer Economics Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Consumer Economics Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Family & Consumer Economics (With Aid)

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Crescent Technical College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Consumer Economics Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid. Griffin, Georgia is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s consumer economics degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our associate degree consumer economics students with aid list, Southern Crescent Technical College has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Family & Consumer Economics Associate Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $5,568 for associate degree consumer economics students with aid per year to attend Southern Crescent Technical College.

Read full report on Family & Consumer Economics at Southern Crescent Technical College

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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