2025 Best Child Care Provider/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
15
Colleges in the Southeast Region
827
Associate Degrees
Ranked #22 in popularity,
child care provider/assistant is one of the most sought-after associate degree programs in the nation. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 15 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Child Care Provider/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 827 associate degrees in child care provider/assistant to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
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. 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 take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination 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 full 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
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Child Care Provider/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.