2025 Best Security Science and Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
If you plan on getting your associate degree in
security science and technology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #106 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 11 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for security science and technology students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 348 associate degrees in security science and technology to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Security Science and Technology School for Your Associate Degree
The security science and technology associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality security science and technology program can vary widely even among the top schools. 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 quality 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.
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
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on security science and technology students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other security science and technology 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.
- Student Debt - How easy is it for security science and technology to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized security science and technology related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for security science and technology students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Security Science and Technology Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Security Science and Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
