If you pursue a associate degree in health sciences & services, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #16 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 9 schools in New Jersey to determine which ones were the best for health sciences & services students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 559 associate degrees in health sciences & services during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Health Sciences & Services School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of health sciences & services for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
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.
Early-Career Earnings
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 health sciences & services students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other health sciences & services 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 easy is it for health sciences & services to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized health sciences & services related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for health sciences & services 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 Health Sciences & Services Associate Degree Schools in New Jersey list to help you make the college decision.
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Union County College is a wonderful choice for individuals interested in an associate degree in health sciences & services. Located in the suburb of Cranford, Union County College is a public college with a medium-sized student population.
Associate recipients from the health sciences & services major at Union County College earn $7,879 more than the standard college graduate in this field shortly after graduation.
It's difficult to beat Middlesex County College if you want to pursue an associate degree in health sciences & services. Located in the suburb of Edison, Middlesex County College is a public college with a fairly large student population.
Soon after graduating, health science associate recipients usually make around $29,265 in the first five years of their career.
Berkeley College - Woodland Park is a small private for-profit college located in the large suburb of Woodland Park.
Associate recipients from the health sciences & services program at Berkeley College - Woodland Park get $5,426 above the standard college graduate in this field shortly after graduation.
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).