2024 Best Education Associate Degree Schools in Connecticut

If you plan on getting your associate degree in education, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #12 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Education Associate Degree Schools in Connecticut ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 151 associate degrees in education during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Education School for Your Associate Degree

Your choice of education for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality education program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on education students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of education students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt education students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized education related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for education students working on their associate degree.

More Ways to Rank Education Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Education Associate Degree Schools in Connecticut ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

 

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Education in Connecticut

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in education.

Top Connecticut Schools for an Associate in Education

1

Capital Community College
Hartford, CT

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

5 Annual Graduates

Capital Community College is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting an associate degree in education. Capital Community College is a small public college located in the medium-sized city of Hartford.More information about a associate in education from Capital Community College

2

Manchester Community College
Manchester, CT

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

14 Annual Graduates

Manchester Community College is a wonderful decision for individuals interested in an associate degree in education. MCC is a small public college located in the large suburb of Manchester.More information about a associate in education from Manchester Community College

3

Gateway Community College
New Haven, CT

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

19 Annual Graduates

Gateway Community College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting an associate degree in education. Located in the midsize city of New Haven, Gateway Community College is a public college with a medium-sized student population.More information about a associate in education from Gateway Community College

Best Education Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Education Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	35	373
New Hampshire	31	109
Maine	26	117
Rhode Island	25	41
Vermont	19	55

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Education Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Teacher Education Grade Specific	130
General Education	20
Special Education	1

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Horadrim. More about our data sources and methodologies.