2022 Best Value Teacher Education 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 Teacher Education Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Teacher Education is the 110th most popular major in the country with 8,205 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,604 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 97 teacher education graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality teacher education 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 teacher education program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The teacher education 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 Teacher Education Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region”.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Best Value Teacher Education Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree teacher education students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Teacher Education in the Southeast Region

#1

Salem University

Salem, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$21,790 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Salem University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Teacher Education Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Located in Salem, West Virginia, this small private for-profit school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified associates’s teacher education students in 2019-2020.

Salem not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Teacher Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $21,790 for southeast region associate degree teacher education students per year to attend Salem University.

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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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