2024 Best Secondary Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
315Associate Degrees
Secondary Education is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #166 most popular associate degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Secondary Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 315 associate degrees in secondary education during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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. 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 account for this we consider 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 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.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Secondary Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Secondary Education in the Southwest Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in secondary education.
Top Southwest 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).