With back-to-school season upon us and a year of community college nearly three times less expensive than a year at a public four-year college, the personal-finance website WalletHub released its report on 2019’s Best & Worst Community Colleges.
To determine where students can receive the best education at the cheapest rates, WalletHub compared 710 community colleges across 19 key indicators of cost and quality. The data set ranges from the cost of in-state tuition and fees to student-faculty ratio to graduation rate.
Warren County Community College was ranked 49th overall and was also ranked 3rd in New Jersey. Sussex County Community College was ranked 167th overall and ranked 11th in New Jersey.
The following is the top 20 community colleges for 2019 according to WalletHub:
- State Technical College of Missouri (MO)
- Arkansas State University-Mountain Home (AR)
- Southern Arkansas University Tech (AR)
- San Joaquin Delta College (CA)
- Pierce College-Puyallup (WA)
- Minnesota State Community and Technical College (MN)
- Alexandria Technical & Community College (MN)
- Mitchell Technical Institute (SD)
- Northland Community and Technical College (MN)
- Columbia-Greene Community College (NY)
- SOWELA Technical Community College (LA)
- Northwest Iowa Community College (IA)
- CUNY Queensborough Community College (NY)
- Miles Community College (MT)
- Irvine Valley College (CA)
- North Hennepin Community College (MN)
- Barstow Community College (CA)
- Hopkinsville Community College (KY)
- Morgan Community College (CO)
- Raritan Valley Community College (NJ)
Here are the top 20 states with the Best Community-College Systems:
- 1. Washington
- 2. South Dakota
- 3. Minnesota
- 4. Colorado
- 5. Arkansas
- 6. Maryland
- 7. New York
- 8. Wyoming
- 9. Kentucky
- 10. Tennessee
- 11. New Jersey
- 12. Mississippi
- 13. Hawaii
- 14. Iowa
- 15. Montana
- 16. West Virginia
- 17. Oregon
- 18. California
- 19. New Mexico
- 20. North Dakota
Here are the rankings for New Jersey:
| 1 | Raritan Valley Community College | 63.45 |
| 2 | Burlington County College | 63.17 |
| 3 | Warren County Community College | 61.66 |
| 4 | Ocean County College | 61.09 |
| 5 | Salem Community College | 59.82 |
| 6 | Mercer County Community College | 58.81 |
| 7 | Brookdale Community College | 58.74 |
| 8 | Middlesex County College | 58.66 |
| 9 | Rowan College at Gloucester County | 58.61 |
| 10 | Cumberland County College | 58.21 |
| 11 | Sussex County Community College | 57.96 |
| 12 | Bergen Community College | 57 |
| 13 | Camden County College | 56.91 |
| 14 | Atlantic Cape Community College | 53.47 |
| 15 | Union County College | 53.36 |
| 16 | Essex County College | 52.7 |
| 17 | Passaic County Community College | 51.26 |
| 18 | Hudson County Community College | 45.35 |
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