2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Consumer Economics Major in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Consumer Economics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Family & Consumer Economics is the 211th most popular major in the country with 1,335 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , family & consumer economics graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $36,903 and had an average of $23,078 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 323 family & consumer economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,123 and $23,246 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 family & consumer economics graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,020 and $16,931 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Consumer Economics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in family & consumer economics. That schools that top this list have a program in family & consumer economics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Consumer Economics Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Consumer Economics Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Family & Consumer Economics in the Southeast Region

1

Athens Technical College
Athens, Georgia

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Athens Technical College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Consumer Economics Major in the Southeast Region list. Athens Technical College is located in Athens, Georgia and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 8 associates’s consumer economics degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Family & Consumer Economics at Athens Technical College

2

Southern Crescent Technical College
Griffin, Georgia

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Consumer Economics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Crescent Technical College landed the #2 spot on the list. Southern Crescent Technical College is a medium-sized public school situated in Griffin, Georgia. It awarded 3 associates’s consumer economics degrees in 2021-2022.

Full Southern Crescent Technical College Family & Consumer Economics Report

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.