2022 Best Value Educational Leadership and Administration Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

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 Educational Leadership and Administration Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

General Educational Leadership & Administration is the 33rd most popular major in the country with 32,654 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 6,929 general educational leadership and administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 general educational leadership and administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Educational Leadership and Administration Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general educational leadership and administration. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general educational leadership and administration 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 general educational leadership and administration 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.

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Best Value Educational Leadership and Administration Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree educational leadership and administration students.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Educational Leadership & Administration in the Southwest Region

#1

Rio Salado College

Tempe, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$9,320 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rio Salado College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Educational Leadership and Administration Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region list. Rio Salado College is a fairly large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 5 associates’s educational leadership and administration degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region associate degree educational leadership and administration students list, Rio Salado College has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best General Educational Leadership & Administration Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $9,320 for southwest region associate degree educational leadership and administration students per year to attend Rio Salado College.

Read full report on General Educational Leadership & Administration at Rio Salado College

#2

Glendale Community College

Glendale, Arizona

#2 in overall quality

$8,597 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Educational Leadership and Administration Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Glendale Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Glendale Community College is a fairly large school located in Glendale, Arizona that handed out 1 associates’s educational leadership and administration degrees in 2019-2020.

Glendale Community College also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Educational Leadership & Administration Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Glendale Community College is $8,597 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Educational Leadership and Administration 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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