2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching is the 318th most popular major in the country with 2,068 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 126 kindergarten/preschool education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 52 kindergarten/preschool education and teaching graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality kindergarten/preschool education and teaching programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the kindergarten/preschool education and teaching program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The kindergarten/preschool education and teaching school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region”.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree kindergarten/preschool education and teaching students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching in the Southwest Region

#1

Rio Salado College

Tempe, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$9,320 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rio Salado College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region. Rio Salado College is a fairly large public school situated in Tempe, Arizona. It awarded 12 associates’s kindergarten/preschool education and teaching degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region associate degree kindergarten/preschool education and teaching students list, Rio Salado College has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Kindergarten/Preschool Education & Teaching Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $9,320 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Kindergarten/Preschool Education and Teaching students per year to attend Rio Salado College.

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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