2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Education in Kansas

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Education Major in Kansas” ranking - to help you make that decision.

General Education is the 41st most popular major in the country with 29,810 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general education graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $48,719 and had an average of $23,394 in loans still to pay off.

Across Kansas, there were 373 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,662 and $12,000 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 46 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,801 and $22,074 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Education Major in Kansas” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in general education. That schools that top this list have a program in general education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Education Major in Kansas

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

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Education in Kansas

1

Highland Community College
Highland, Kansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Highland Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Education Major in Kansas. Highland, Kansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s education degrees to 33 students in 2020-2021.

Full Highland Community College General Education Report

2

Barton County Community College
Great Bend, Kansas

#17 overall quality in Kansas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Education Major in Kansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Barton County Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Great Bend, Kansas, and it awarded 13 associates’s education degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Education at Barton Community College

3

Butler Community College
El Dorado, Kansas

#20 overall quality in Kansas

$17,036 Average Early-Career Earnings

$12,000 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Education Major in Kansas that were part of this year’s ranking, Butler Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in El Dorado, Kansas, this medium-sized public school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified associates’s education students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Education at Butler Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Education in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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