2025 Best Dental Assisting/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
11
Colleges in the Southeast Region
223
Associate Degrees
If you pursue a associate degree in
dental assisting/assistant, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #81 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 11 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of dental assisting/assistant. Combined, these schools handed out 223 associate degrees in dental assisting/assistant to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Dental Assisting/Assistant School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of dental assisting/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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
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 school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of various 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 many resources a school devotes to dental assisting/assistant students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other dental assisting/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 dental assisting/assistant related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for dental assisting/assistant students working on their associate degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
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 Dental Assisting/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.