2024 Best Child Care Provider/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region

If you pursue a associate degree in child care provider/assistant, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #22 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for child care provider/assistant students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 33 associate degrees in child care provider/assistant during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on child care provider/assistant students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other child care provider/assistant students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
• 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 child care provider/assistant related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for child care provider/assistant students working on their associate degree.

More Ways to Rank Child Care Provider/Assistant Schools

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 Child Care Provider/Assistant Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Child Care Provider/Assistant in the New England Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in child care provider/assistant.

Top New England Region Schools for an Associate in Child Care Provider/Assistant

1

North Shore Community College
Danvers, MA

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

22 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in an associate degree in child care provider/assistant has to look into North Shore Community College. Located in the large suburb of Danvers, North Shore Community College is a public college with a small student population.More information about a associate in child care provider/assistant from North Shore Community College

2

Massasoit Community College
Brockton, MA

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

7 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Massasoit Community College if you want to pursue an associate degree in child care provider/assistant. Massasoit Community College is a small public college located in the suburb of Brockton.More information about a associate in child care provider/assistant from Massasoit Community College

Best Child Care Provider/Assistant Colleges by State

Explore the best child care provider/assistant colleges for a specific state in the New England Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	257	29
Connecticut	156	4

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Rankings in Majors Related to Child Care Provider/Assistant

Child Care Provider/Assistant is one of 10 different types of Human Development & Family Studies programs to choose from.

Most Popular Majors Related to Child Care Provider/Assistant

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Child Care & Support Services Management	214
Developmental Services Worker	17
Adult Development & Aging	8
Child Development	3

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
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