2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Educational/Instructional Technology Major in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Educational/Instructional Technology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Educational/Instructional Technology is the 109th most popular major in the country with 8,695 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 866 educational/instructional technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 67 educational/instructional technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Educational/Instructional Technology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in educational/instructional technology. That schools that top this list have a program in educational/instructional technology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Educational/Instructional Technology Major in the Southwest Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Educational/Instructional Technology Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree educational/instructional technology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Educational/Instructional Technology in the Southwest Region

1

Lone Star College System
The Woodlands, Texas

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Educational/Instructional Technology Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Lone Star College System landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in The Woodlands, Texas, and it awarded 66 associates’s educational/instructional technology degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Lone Star College System Educational/Instructional Technology Report

2

Rio Salado College
Tempe, Arizona

Top 10% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rio Salado College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Educational/Instructional Technology Major in the Southwest Region. Rio Salado College is a fairly large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 1 associates’s educational/instructional technology degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Educational/Instructional Technology at Rio Salado College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Educational/Instructional Technology

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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