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2023 Most Popular Online Associate Degree Trade Schools in Massachusetts
When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for trade school students. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house.
To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Trade College Search has developed this Most Popular Online Associate Degree Trade Schools in Massachusetts ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in Massachusetts to see which ones had the most popular online associate degree programs for trade school students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.
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Most Popular Online Trade School Associate Degree Schools in Massachusetts
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Our 2023 rankings named FINE Mortuary College the most popular school in Massachusetts for trade school students working on their associate degree. Located in Norwood, Massachusetts, the very small private for-profit school handed out 29 associate degree awards in 2021-2022.
If you want to attend FINE Mortuary College, expect to pay an average of $20,945 in tuition and fees. Of course, this could be reduced if you receive financial aid. On average, associate degree students take out $28,722 in loans while pursuing their degree. Around 69% of those degree recipients were women.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Fisher College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Associate Degree Trade Schools in Massachusetts list. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, the small private not-for-profit school awarded 41 diplomas to qualifed associate degree students in 2021-2022.
If you don’t receive financial aid, you can expect a bill for $34,150 to cover tuition and fees at Fisher College. The school does not offer an in-state discount. On average, associate degree students take out $16,058 in loans while pursuing their degree. Of those students who received their degree, 100% were women.
To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 57% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2020-2021.
Out of the 3 schools in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Cambridge College landed the # 3 spot on the list. Cambridge College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Boston, Massachusetts. It awarded 26 associate degrees in 2021-2022.
Of those students who received their degree, 96% were women.
Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2020-2021 academic year, around 66% took at least some of their classes online.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
More about our data sources and methodologies.