2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Science in the New England Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 30,075 people earned their degree in biological and physical science, making the major the 38th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, biological and physical science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,402 and had an average of $15,005 in loans still to pay off.

Across the New England region, there were 177 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,628 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 90 biological and physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,618 and $16,599 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in biological and physical science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their biological and physical science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in the New England Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Science in the New England Region

1

Massasoit Community College
Brockton, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Massasoit Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in the New England Region list. Massasoit Community College is a medium-sized public school situated in Brockton, Massachusetts. It awarded 80 associates’s biological science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Biological & Physical Science at Massasoit Community College

2

Northern Essex Community College
Haverhill, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Essex Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in the New England Region list. Located in Haverhill, Massachusetts, this small public school awarded 3 degrees to qualified associates’s biological science students in 2020-2021.

Full NECC Biological & Physical Science Report

3

Community College of Rhode Island
Warwick, Rhode Island

Top 25% overall quality in New England

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Biological Science Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Community College of Rhode Island landed the #3 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Warwick, Rhode Island, and it awarded 7 associates’s biological science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Biological & Physical Science at CCRI

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Biological & Physical Science

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.