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2022 Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region

4 Ranked Colleges
381 Degrees Awarded
$7,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Psychology is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 4th of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 134,326 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, general psychology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $28,999 and had an average of $26,247 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 14,346 general psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,203 and $26,209 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 381 general psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,508 and $17,812 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in general psychology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general psychology programs and 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 general psychology program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree psychology students.

Top 4 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Psychology in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Lansing Community College

Lansing, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lansing Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region list. Lansing, Michigan is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s psychology degrees to 35 students in 2019-2020.

LCC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Psychology Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for LCC is $4,828 for Great Lakes Region Associate Degree Psychology students.

Read full report on General Psychology at LCC

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Sinclair Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Dayton, Ohio, this fairly large public school handed out 88 diplomas to qualified associates’s psychology students in 2019-2020.

Sinclair Community College also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Psychology Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $4,208 for great lakes region associate degree psychology students per year to attend Sinclair Community College.

Full Sinclair Community College General Psychology Report

#3

Ferris State University

Big Rapids, Michigan
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Ferris State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Ferris is located in Big Rapids, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 associates’s psychology degrees to qualified students.

Ferris did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best General Psychology Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. It costs about $12,889 for great lakes region associate degree psychology students per year to attend Ferris State University.

Read full report on General Psychology at Ferris State University

#4

Owens Community College

Perrysburg, Ohio

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Owens Community College. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region. Owens Community College is a medium-sized public school situated in Perrysburg, Ohio. It awarded 34 associates’s psychology degrees in 2019-2020.

Owens State Community College also took the #4 spot in our “Best General Psychology Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $8,323 for great lakes region associate degree psychology students per year to attend Owens State Community College.

Full Owens State Community College General Psychology Report

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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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