2022 Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in Missouri

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Education Schools for an Associate in Missouri” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Education is the 35th most popular major in the country with 29,936 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $47,138 and had an average of $29,674 in loans still to pay off.

Across Missouri, there were 428 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,838 and $28,827 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 8 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,631 and $21,057 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in Missouri” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general education programs that also have a lower cost than 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 general education program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in Missouri

The colleges and universities below are the best for missouri associate degree education students.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Education in Missouri

#1

Southwest Baptist University

Bolivar, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$17,682 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southwest Baptist University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in Missouri list. Southwest Baptist University is a small school located in Bolivar, Missouri that handed out 3 associates’s education degrees in 2019-2020.

Southwest Baptist University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Education Associate Degree Schools in Missouri” list. The yearly cost to attend Southwest Baptist University is $17,682 for missouri associate degree education students.

Read more about General Education at Southwest Baptist University

#2

Drury University - College of Continuing Professional Studies

Springfield, Missouri

#2 in overall quality

$13,233 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Drury University - College of Continuing Professional Studies. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Education Schools for an Associate in Missouri. Springfield, Missouri is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s education degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

Drury University - CCPS also made our “Best General Education Associate Degree Schools in Missouri” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $13,233 for missouri associate degree education students per year to attend Drury University - College of Continuing Professional Studies.

Read more about General Education at Drury University - CCPS

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Education in the Plains States Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Education

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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