2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Teaching Assistants in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Teaching Assistants Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 1,819 people earned their degree in teaching assistants, making the major the 243rd most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, teaching assistants graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $20,850 and had an average of $7,654 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 93 teaching assistants graduates with average earnings and debt of $19,800 and $14,563 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 77 teaching assistants graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Teaching Assistants Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in teaching assistants. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent teaching assistants programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the teaching assistants program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Teaching Assistants Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree teaching assistants students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Teaching Assistants in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

Texas State Technical College

Waco, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$10,114 Average Net Price

$16,478 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas State Technical College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Teaching Assistants Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. Waco, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s teaching assistants degrees to 63 students in 2019-2020.

TSTC also made our “Best Teaching Assistants Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $10,114 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Teaching Assistants students with aid per year to attend TSTC.

Read full report on Teaching Assistants at TSTC

#2

University of Phoenix - Arizona

Tempe, Arizona

#2 in overall quality

$12,944 Average Net Price

$20,761 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Teaching Assistants Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Phoenix - Arizona landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Phoenix - Arizona is a large private for-profit school situated in Tempe, Arizona. It awarded 6 associates’s teaching assistants degrees in 2019-2020.

UOPX - Arizona also took the #2 spot in our “Best Teaching Assistants Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UOPX - Arizona is $12,944 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Teaching Assistants students with aid.

Read more about Teaching Assistants at UOPX - Arizona

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Teaching Assistants (With Aid)

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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