2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Science in New Jersey

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in New Jersey” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Physical Science is the 179th most popular major in the country with 3,823 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across New Jersey, there were 207 physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 207 physical science graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,217 and $15,066 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in New Jersey” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in physical science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in physical science.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in New Jersey

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

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Science in New Jersey

1

Middlesex County College
Edison, New Jersey

#19 overall quality in New Jersey

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in New Jersey that were part of this year’s ranking, Middlesex County College landed the #1 spot on the list. Middlesex County College is a medium-sized public school situated in Edison, New Jersey. It awarded 202 associates’s physical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Physical Science at Middlesex County College

2

Warren County Community College
Washington, New Jersey

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Physical Sciences Major in New Jersey that were part of this year’s ranking, Warren County Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Warren County Community College is a small school located in Washington, New Jersey that handed out 5 associates’s physical sciences degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Warren County Community College Physical Science Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Physical Science in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for 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.