2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Philosophy in the Middle Atlantic 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 Philosophy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Philosophy is the 83rd most popular major in the country with 10,054 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, philosophy graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,510 and had an average of $21,514 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 2,069 philosophy graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,140 and $23,053 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 10 philosophy graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,164 and $17,633 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Philosophy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in philosophy. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in philosophy.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Philosophy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Philosophy in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

LaGuardia Community College
Long Island City, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Philosophy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, LaGuardia Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. LaGuardia Community College is located in Long Island City, New York and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 associates’s philosophy degrees to qualified students.

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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 Philosophy Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Harrisburg Area Community College is located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 associates’s philosophy degrees to qualified students.

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• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Philosophy

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.