2022 Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 9,530 people earned their degree in secondary education, making the major the 88th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 2,448 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 42 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in secondary education. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality secondary education programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the secondary education program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region.

Top 3 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in the Southeast Region

#1

Holmes Community College

Goodman, Mississippi

#2 in overall quality

$4,321 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Holmes Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Holmes Community College is a medium-sized school located in Goodman, Mississippi that handed out 24 associates’s secondary teaching degrees in 2019-2020.

Holmes Community College also made our “Best Secondary Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend Holmes Community College is $4,321 for southeast region associate degree secondary teaching students.

Read full report on Secondary Education at Holmes Community College

#2

Georgia Military College

Milledgeville, Georgia

#1 in overall quality

$9,792 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgia Military College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. This medium-sized school is located in Milledgeville, Georgia, and it awarded 2 associates’s secondary teaching degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Georgia Military College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Secondary Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Georgia Military College is $9,792 for southeast region associate degree secondary teaching students.

Full Georgia Military College Secondary Education Report

#3

Itawamba Community College

Fulton, Mississippi

#3 in overall quality

$5,107 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Secondary Teaching Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Itawamba Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. ICC is located in Fulton, Mississippi and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 13 associates’s secondary teaching degrees to qualified students.

ICC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Secondary Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for ICC is $5,107 for southeast region associate degree secondary teaching students.

Full Itawamba Community College Secondary Education Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Secondary 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

• *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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