2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Adult Development & Aging 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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult Development and Aging Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 299 people earned their degree in adult development and aging, making the major the 877th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 45 adult development and aging graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 33 adult development and aging graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,164 and $17,633 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult Development and Aging Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in adult development and aging. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their adult development and aging program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult Development and Aging Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region associate degree adult development and aging students.

Top 5 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Adult Development & Aging in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Hostos Community College
Bronx, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hostos Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult Development and Aging Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Bronx, New York, and it awarded 18 associates’s adult development and aging degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Hostos Community College Adult Development & Aging Report

2

Harrisburg Area Community College
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harrisburg Area Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult Development and Aging Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s adult development and aging degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.

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3

Delaware County Community College
Media, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Delaware County Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult Development and Aging Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in Media, Pennsylvania, this medium-sized public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified associates’s adult development and aging students in 2020-2021.

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4

New York City College of Technology
Brooklyn, New York

Top 20% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New York City College of Technology. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult Development and Aging Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Brooklyn, New York, this fairly large public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified associates’s adult development and aging students in 2020-2021.

Full City Tech Adult Development & Aging Report

4

LaGuardia Community College
Long Island City, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend LaGuardia Community College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Adult Development and Aging Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. LaGuardia is a public institution located in Long Island City, New York. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Adult Development & Aging at LaGuardia Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Adult Development & Aging

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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