If you pursue a associate degree in general psychology, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #8 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of general psychology. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 790 associate degrees in general psychology during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great General Psychology School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of general psychology for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality psychology program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
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 include 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.
Average Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of associate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their associate degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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 general psychology students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general psychology 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.
Student Debt - How much debt general psychology 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 general psychology related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general psychology students working on their associate degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Psychology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study General Psychology in the Southeast Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in general psychology.
Top Southeast Region Schools for an Associate in Psychology
Every student who is interested in an associate degree in general psychology needs to take a look at Liberty University. Liberty University is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Lynchburg.
Students who graduate with their associate from the psychology program report average early career earnings of $29,199.
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).