2022 Best Value Real Estate Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Real Estate Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Real Estate is the 163rd most popular major in the country with 5,658 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, real estate graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $59,476 and had an average of $30,114 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 983 real estate graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,575 and $27,239 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 31 real estate graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Real Estate Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in real estate. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality real estate programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the real estate program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The real estate 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 “Best Value Real Estate Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region”.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Value Real Estate Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Real Estate Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region.

Top 3 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Real Estate in the Southeast Region

#1

American Public University System

Charles Town, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$10,222 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American Public University System. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Real Estate Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Located in Charles Town, West Virginia, this large private for-profit school awarded 22 diplomas to qualified associates’s real estate students in 2019-2020.

American Military University also made our “Best Real Estate Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend American Public University System is $10,222 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Real Estate students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 98%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Real Estate at American Military University

#2

Valencia College

Orlando, Florida

#2 in overall quality

$5,205 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Valencia College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Real Estate Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Valencia College is a large school located in Orlando, Florida that handed out 6 associates’s real estate degrees in 2019-2020.

Valencia College also took the #2 spot in our “Best Real Estate Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Valencia College is $5,205 for southeast region associate degree real estate students.

Read full report on Real Estate at Valencia College

#3

Hinds Community College

Raymond, Mississippi

#3 in overall quality

$3,757 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hinds Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Real Estate Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Raymond, Mississippi is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s real estate degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

Hinds Community College also made our “Best Real Estate Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #3. The estimated yearly cost for Hinds Community College is $3,757 for southeast region associate degree real estate students.

Read more about Real Estate at Hinds Community College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Real Estate

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Godrej Mamurdi Pune.

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