2025 Best Teacher Education Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey
2Colleges in New Jersey
83Associate Degrees
Ranked #79 in popularity, teacher education is one of the most sought-after associate degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in New Jersey to determine which ones were the best for teacher education students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 83 associate degrees in teacher education during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to teacher education students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of teacher education students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized teacher education related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for teacher education students working on their associate degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Teacher Education Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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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).