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Associate Degrees
General Computer & Information Sciences is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #25 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best General Computer & Information Sciences Associate Degree Schools in New York ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 344 associate degrees in general computer & information sciences during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Your choice of general computer & information sciences 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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general computer & information sciences students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other general computer & information sciences 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.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general computer & information sciences related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general computer & information sciences students working on their associate degree.
The computer and information sciences 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 the Best General Computer & Information Sciences Associate Degree Schools in New York.