2025 Best Computer & Information Sciences Associate Degree Schools in South Carolina

6 Colleges in South Carolina

417 Associate Degrees

If you plan on getting your associate degree in computer & information sciences, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #5 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 6 schools in South Carolina to determine which ones were the best for computer & information sciences students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 417 associate degrees in computer & information sciences during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Computer & Information Sciences School for Your Associate Degree

Best Computer & Information Sciences Associate Degree Schools in South Carolina Your choice of computer & information sciences for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality computer & information sciences program can vary widely even among the top schools. 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 quality 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 many resources a school devotes to computer & information sciences students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of computer & information sciences students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
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 computer & information sciences 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 computer & information sciences related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for computer & information sciences students working on their associate degree.

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