2022 Best Value IT Schools for an Associate in Arkansas

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value IT Schools for an Associate in Arkansas” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Information Technology is the 37th most popular major in the country with 28,174 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Arkansas, there were 147 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 29 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,815 and $15,092 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent information technology programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the information technology program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value IT Schools for an Associate in Arkansas

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value IT Schools for an Associate in Arkansas.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Information Technology in Arkansas

#1

Arkansas Tech University

Russellville, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$10,772 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value IT Schools for an Associate in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Arkansas Tech University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Russellville, Arkansas, this fairly large public school handed out 29 degrees to qualified associates’s IT students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at ATU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Information Technology Associate Degree Schools in Arkansas” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Arkansas Tech University is $10,772 for Arkansas Associate Degree IT students.

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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.

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