2025 Best Liberal Arts Associate Degree Schools in Connecticut

Liberal Arts is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #1 most popular major 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 3 schools in Connecticut to determine which ones were the best for liberal arts students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 600 associate degrees in liberal arts during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Liberal Arts School for Your Associate Degree

Your choice of liberal arts 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

The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to liberal arts students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other liberal arts students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized liberal arts related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for liberal arts students working on their associate degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Liberal Arts Associate Degree Schools in Connecticut ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Liberal Arts in Connecticut

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in liberal arts.

Top Connecticut Schools for an Associate in Liberal Studies

1

Capital Community College
Hartford, CT

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

461 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Capital Community College if you wish to pursue an associate degree in liberal arts. Capital Community College is a very large public college located in the medium-sized city of Hartford.More information about a associate in liberal arts from Capital Community College

2

Charter Oak State College
New Britain, CT

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

37 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in an associate degree in liberal arts has to take a look at Charter Oak State College. Charter Oak State College is a small public college located in the large suburb of New Britain.More information about a associate in liberal arts from Charter Oak State College

3

University of Hartford
West Hartford, CT

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

73 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in liberal arts has to check out University of Hartford. UHart is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of West Hartford.More information about a associate in liberal arts from University of Hartford

Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	257	1,723
New Hampshire	114	189
Rhode Island	101	9
Maine	94	270
Vermont	69	126

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Liberal Arts Related Rankings by Major

Liberal Arts is one of 3 different types of Liberal Arts General Studies programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Liberal Studies

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Studies	847

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.