Teaching Assistants is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #96 most popular associate degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 5 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of teaching assistants. Combined, these schools handed out 334 associate degrees in teaching assistants to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Teaching Assistants School for Your Associate Degree
The teaching assistants associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
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
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on teaching assistants students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other teaching assistants students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt teaching assistants 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 teaching assistants related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for teaching assistants students working on their associate degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Teaching Assistants Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Bronx Community College is a wonderful choice for students pursuing an associate degree in teaching assistants. Located in the city of Bronx, BCC is a public college with a medium-sized student population.
Teaching Assistants associate degree recipients from Bronx Community College receive an earnings boost of around $6,137 over the average earnings of teaching assistants graduates.
It is hard to beat Borough of Manhattan Community College if you wish to pursue an associate degree in teaching assistants. BMCC is a large public college located in the city of New York.
Associate graduates who receive their degree from the teaching assistants program make an average of $23,672 in the first couple years of their career.
Hostos Community College is a wonderful option for students interested in an associate degree in teaching assistants. Hostos is a medium-sized public college located in the city of Bronx.
Students who graduate with their associate from the teaching assistants program report average early career income of $24,283.
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).
The teaching assistants associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
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