2024 Best Social Work Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey

If you plan on getting your associate degree in social work, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #66 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in New Jersey to determine which ones were the best for social work students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 175 associate degrees in social work during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Early-Career Salaries

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on social work students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other social work students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt social work students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized social work related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for social work students working on their associate degree.

More Ways to Rank Social Work Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Social Work Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

 

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Social Work in New Jersey

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in social work.

Top New Jersey Schools for an Associate in Social Work

1

Camden County College
Blackwood, NJ

37 Annual Graduates

$31,187 Median Starting Salary

$9,219 Median Student Debt

Any student who is interested in an associate degree in social work has to take a look at Camden County College. Camden County College is a moderately-sized public college located in the suburb of Blackwood.

Social Work associate degree recipients from Camden County College get an earnings boost of around $3,840 over the average income of social work graduates.

More information about a associate in social work from Camden County College

2

Passaic County Community College
Paterson, NJ

22 Annual Graduates

$25,337 Median Starting Salary

Every student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in social work needs to take a look at Passaic County Community College. Located in the large suburb of Paterson, PCCC is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

Associate students who receive their degree from the social work program earn an average of $25,337 in the first couple years of their career.

More information about a associate in social work from Passaic County Community College

 

Best Social Work Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Social Work Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	196	4
Pennsylvania	179	111
Maryland	126	9

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Rankings in Majors Related to Social Work

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Social Work Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Social Work	175

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Army Medicine. More about our data sources and methodologies.