2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Occupational Safety & Health Technology in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value OSHA Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 3,416 people earned their degree in occupational safety and health technology/technician, making the major the 210th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 2,023 occupational safety and health technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 432 occupational safety and health technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value OSHA Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in occupational safety and health technology/technician. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent occupational safety and health technology/technician programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the occupational safety and health technology/technician program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value OSHA Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

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

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Occupational Safety & Health Technology in the Southeast Region

#1

Columbia Southern University

Orange Beach, Alabama

#2 in overall quality

$10,368 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia Southern University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value OSHA Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. This fairly large school is located in Orange Beach, Alabama, and it awarded 424 associates’s OSHA degrees in 2019-2020.

Columbia Southern University also took the #2 spot in our “Best Occupational Safety & Health Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Columbia Southern University is $10,368 for Southeast Region Associate Degree OSHA students.

Read more about Occupational Safety & Health Technology at Columbia Southern University

#2

Fairmont State University

Fairmont, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$10,161 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value OSHA Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Fairmont State University landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Fairmont, West Virginia, and it awarded 1 associates’s OSHA degrees in 2019-2020.

Fairmont State also made our “Best Occupational Safety & Health Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Fairmont State University is $10,161 for Southeast Region Associate Degree OSHA students.

Read more about Occupational Safety & Health Technology at Fairmont State University

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Occupational Safety & Health Technology

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.

Credits

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