2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Athletic Training in the Southeast Region
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 3,408 people earned their degree in athletic training, making the major the 187th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 703 athletic training graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 athletic training graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,020 and $16,931 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in athletic training. That schools that top this list have a program in athletic training in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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The athletic trainer 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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in the Southeast Region”.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Athletic Training in the Southeast Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Andrew College landed the #1 spot on the list. Andrew College is a small school located in Cuthbert, Georgia that handed out 3 associates’s athletic trainer degrees in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read more about Athletic Training at Andrew College
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend East Mississippi Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in the Southeast Region. EMCC is located in Scooba, Mississippi and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 associates’s athletic trainer degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full East Mississippi Community College Athletic Training Report
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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
- *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.
