2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Natural Sciences in Pennsylvania

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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 2,214 people earned their degree in natural sciences, making the major the 208th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, natural sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $25,745 and had an average of $18,648 in loans still to pay off.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 55 natural sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,419 and $29,000 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 0 natural sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,360 and $19,957 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in Pennsylvania” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in natural sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their natural sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in Pennsylvania”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Natural Sciences in Pennsylvania

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Community College of Beaver County
Monaca, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Community College of Beaver County. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in Pennsylvania list. Community College of Beaver County is located in Monaca, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 associates’s natural sciences degrees to qualified students.

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Mount Aloysius College
Cresson, Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Natural Sciences Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Mount Aloysius College landed the #1 spot on the list. Mount Aloysius is a private not-for-profit institution located in Cresson, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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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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