2022 Best Value Programming Schools for an Associate in South Carolina

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Computer Programming is the 121st most popular major in the country with 10,756 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, computer programming graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $45,886 and had an average of $26,222 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Carolina, there were 25 computer programming graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 2 computer programming graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality computer programming programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the computer programming program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Programming Schools for an Associate in South Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Programming Schools for an Associate in South Carolina.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Computer Programming in South Carolina

#1

Limestone College

Gaffney, South Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$22,707 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Limestone College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Programming Schools for an Associate in South Carolina list. Gaffney, South Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s programming degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Limestone College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Computer Programming Associate Degree Schools in South Carolina” ranking. It costs about $22,707 for South Carolina Associate Degree Programming students per year to attend Limestone College.

Read more about Computer Programming at Limestone College

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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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