2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in the Plains States Region

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Teacher Education is the 97th most popular major in the country with 9,653 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Plains States region, there were 459 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 24 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,161 and $15,228 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in teacher education. That schools that top this list have a program in teacher education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region associate degree teacher education students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in the Plains States Region

1

North Central Missouri College
Trenton, Missouri

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Central Missouri College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region. This small school is located in Trenton, Missouri, and it awarded 22 associates’s teacher education degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Teacher Education at North Central Missouri College

2

Three Rivers College
Poplar Bluff, Missouri

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Three Rivers College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region. Poplar Bluff, Missouri is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s teacher education degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.

Read more about Teacher Education at Three Rivers College

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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