2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Education in Missouri

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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 Missouri, there were 493 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,366 and $32,538 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 2 general education graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,899 and $23,654 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Education Major in Missouri” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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 Missouri

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Education Major in Missouri”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Education in Missouri

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Drury University - College of Continuing Professional Studies
Springfield, Missouri

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Drury University - College of Continuing Professional Studies. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Education Major in Missouri list. 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 1 students in 2020-2021.

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Southwest Baptist University
Bolivar, Missouri

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Education Major in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, Southwest Baptist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Bolivar, Missouri is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s education degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Education at Southwest Baptist University

• 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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