2025 Best Child Care Provider/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
4Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
343Associate Degrees
If you pursue a associate degree in child care provider/assistant, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #22 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for child care provider/assistant students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 343 associate degrees in child care provider/assistant to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Child Care Provider/Assistant School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of child care provider/assistant for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
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 different 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 child care provider/assistant students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other child care provider/assistant 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 child care provider/assistant related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for child care provider/assistant students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Child Care Provider/Assistant Schools
The child care provider/assistant 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 Child Care Provider/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Child Care Provider/Assistant in the Great Lakes Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in child care provider/assistant.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for an Associate in Child Care Provider/Assistant
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).