When it comes to popularity, an associate degree in data entry sits in the middle of the road, ranking #163 out of 328 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Data Entry Associate Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 168 associate degrees in data entry during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Data Entry School for Your Associate Degree
The data entry associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality data entry program can vary widely even among the top schools. 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 data entry students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other data entry 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 data entry 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 data entry related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for data entry students working on their associate degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Data Entry Associate Degree Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Featured Data Entry Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Gain the specialized knowledge and critical-thinking skills required to begin a career in tech with this online associate degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
Any student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in data entry needs to check out Clark College. Clark College is a moderately-sized public college located in the medium-sized city of Vancouver.
Students who graduate with their associate from the data entry program state that they receive average early career earnings of $24,556.
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.