2023 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Museology/Museum Studies

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Museology/Museum Studies Major for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Museology/Museum Studies is the 561st most popular major in the country with 816 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 2 museology/museum studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Museology/Museum Studies Major for an Associate” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in museology/museum studies. To top this list, a school must have a successful museology/museum studies program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Museology/Museum Studies Major for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree museology/museum studies students.

Top 3 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Museology/Museum Studies

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Queensborough Community College
Bayside, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Queensborough Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Museology/Museum Studies Major for an Associate list. Queensborough Community College is a fairly large school located in Bayside, New York that handed out 1 associates’s museology/museum studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Queensborough Community College Museology/Museum Studies Report

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Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Museology/Museum Studies Major for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development landed the #1 spot on the list. Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development is a public institution located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Museology/Museum Studies at Institute of American Indian Arts

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Casper College
Casper, Wyoming

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Casper College. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Museology/Museum Studies Major for an Associate. Casper, Wyoming is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s museology/museum studies degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Museology/Museum Studies at Casper College

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

Footnotes

• *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.