2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Child development in the Middle Atlantic Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Child development Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 4,209 people earned their degree in child development, making the major the 238th most popular in the United States.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 148 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 19 child development graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,733 and $16,201 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent child development programs, but they also 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 child development program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Child development Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Child development in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

Jefferson Community College

Watertown, New York

#1 in overall quality

$10,911 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Child development Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Jefferson Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Jefferson Community College is a small school located in Watertown, New York that handed out 11 associates’s child development degrees in 2019-2020.

Jefferson Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Child Development Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Jefferson Community College is $10,911 for middle atlantic region associate degree child development students.

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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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