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.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Kansas to determine which ones were the best for education students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 136 associate degrees in education during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Education School for Your Associate Degree
The education associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
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
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to education students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other education students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for education to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized education related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for education students working on their associate degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Education Associate Degree Schools in Kansas list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Education in Kansas
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in education.
Washburn University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting an associate degree in education. Located in the midsize city of Topeka, Washburn University is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a associate in education from Washburn University
Rasmussen University - Kansas is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting an associate degree in education. Located in the rural area of Topeka, Rasmussen University - Kansas is a private for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a associate in education from Rasmussen University - Kansas
Best Education Colleges in the Plains States Region
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).