2022 Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in Massachusetts

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in Massachusetts” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 134,326 general psychology students received their degree, making the major the 4th most popular in the country. 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 Massachusetts, there were 3,858 general psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,982 and $24,514 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 145 general psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,678 and $11,688 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general psychology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general psychology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in Massachusetts

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in Massachusetts.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Psychology in Massachusetts

#1

Dean College

Franklin, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$31,337 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Dean College landed the #1 spot on the list. Franklin, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s psychology degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

Dean College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Psychology Associate Degree Schools in Massachusetts” list. It costs about $31,337 for massachusetts associate degree psychology students per year to attend Dean College.

Read full report on General Psychology at Dean College

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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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