2022 Best Value Teaching Assistants Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Teaching Assistants Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in teaching assistants. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great teaching assistants programs and 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Teaching Assistants Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Teaching Assistants in the Southwest Region

#1

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 that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Phoenix - Arizona landed the #1 spot on the list. UOPX - Arizona is a private for-profit institution located in Tempe, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 6 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UOPX - Arizona also took the #2 spot in our “Best Teaching Assistants Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $12,944 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Teaching Assistants students per year to attend UOPX - Arizona.

Read more about Teaching Assistants at UOPX - Arizona

#2

Texas State Technical College

Waco, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$10,114 Average Net Price

$16,478 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Teaching Assistants Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State Technical College landed the #2 spot on the list. TSTC is a fairly large school located in Waco, Texas that handed out 63 associates’s teaching assistants degrees in 2019-2020.

TSTC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Teaching Assistants Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for TSTC is $10,114 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Teaching Assistants students.

Read full report on Teaching Assistants at TSTC

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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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