2025 Best Elementary Education Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region
4Colleges in the New England Region
67Associate Degrees
Elementary Education is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #65 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of elementary education. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 67 associate degrees in elementary education during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great Elementary Education School for Your Associate Degree
The elementary teaching associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality elementary teaching 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
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to elementary education students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of elementary education students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized elementary education related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for elementary education 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 Elementary Education Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Elementary Education in the New England Region
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for elementary education students seeking a an associate degree.
Top New England Region Schools for an Associate in Elementary Teaching
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).