2024 Best Software Engineering Associate Degree Schools
6
Colleges in the United States
64
Associate Degrees
Software Engineering isn't the most popular associate program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #438 in popularity out of 1020 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual looked at 6 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Software Engineering Associate Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 64 associate degrees in software engineering to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Software Engineering School for Your Associate Degree
The computer software engineering associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to software engineering students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of software engineering students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized software engineering related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for software engineering students working on their associate degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Software Engineering Associate Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.
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Featured Software Engineering Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.