2025 Best Dental Support Services Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina
If you pursue a associate degree in
dental support services, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #21 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 14 schools in North Carolina to determine which ones were the best for dental support services students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 278 associate degrees in dental support services during the 2022-2023 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Dental Support Services School for Your Associate Degree
The dental support associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. 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 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.
Average Early-Career Salaries
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
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 dental support services students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of dental support services students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
- 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.
- Student Debt - How much debt dental support services students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized dental support services related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for dental support services students working on their associate degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
The dental support 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 Dental Support Services Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina.
