2025 Best Secondary Education Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
4Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
43Associate Degrees
If you plan on getting your associate degree in secondary education, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #166 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.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Secondary Education Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 43 associate degrees in secondary education to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Secondary Education School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of secondary education for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality secondary teaching 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
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 consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection 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 much a school focuses on secondary education students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other secondary education students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
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 secondary education related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for secondary education students working on their associate degree.
The secondary teaching school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Secondary Education Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Secondary Education in the Middle Atlantic Region
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for secondary education students seeking a an associate degree.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for an Associate in Secondary 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).