2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in the Southeast Region

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Secondary Education is the 84th most popular major in the country with 10,547 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 2,452 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 25 secondary education graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in secondary education. That schools that top this list have a program in secondary education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree secondary teaching students.

Top 7 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Secondary Education in the Southeast Region

1

Holmes Community College
Goodman, Mississippi

Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Holmes Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Holmes Community College is a small school located in Goodman, Mississippi that handed out 13 associates’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Holmes Community College Secondary Education Report

2

Itawamba Community College
Fulton, Mississippi

Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Itawamba Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Fulton, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s secondary teaching degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Secondary Education at ICC

3

John Tyler Community College
Chester, Virginia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend John Tyler Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the Southeast Region. John Tyler Community College is a medium-sized school located in Chester, Virginia that handed out 5 associates’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

Full John Tyler Community College Secondary Education Report

4

Mississippi Delta Community College
Moorhead, Mississippi

Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi Delta Community College landed the #4 spot on the list. Moorhead, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s secondary teaching degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Secondary Education at Mississippi Delta Community College

5

Georgia Military College
Milledgeville, Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgia Military College. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the Southeast Region. Georgia Military College is a medium-sized public school situated in Milledgeville, Georgia. It awarded 1 associates’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Georgia Military College Secondary Education Report

6

Copiah-Lincoln Community College
Wesson, Mississippi

With a ranking of #6, Copiah-Lincoln Community College did quite well on the 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the Southeast Region list. This small school is located in Wesson, Mississippi, and it awarded 0 associates’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Copiah-Lincoln Community College Secondary Education Report

6

Welch College
Gallatin, Tennessee

Welch College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Secondary Teaching Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Welch College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Gallatin, Tennessee. It awarded 2 associates’s secondary teaching degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Secondary Education at Welch College

• Most Focused 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

• *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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