2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for American Sign Language in Arizona

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on ASL Major in Arizona” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 2,724 people earned their degree in American Sign Language, making the major the 199th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, American Sign Language graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $32,250 and had an average of $24,208 in loans still to pay off.

Across Arizona, there were 27 American Sign Language graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 16 American Sign Language graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,456 and $20,530 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on ASL Major in Arizona” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in American Sign Language. That schools that top this list have a program in American Sign Language in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on ASL Major in Arizona” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on ASL Major in Arizona

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on ASL Major in Arizona”.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for American Sign Language in Arizona

1

Phoenix College
Phoenix, Arizona

#15 overall quality in Arizona

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on ASL Major in Arizona that were part of this year’s ranking, Phoenix College landed the #1 spot on the list. Phoenix College is a medium-sized school located in Phoenix, Arizona that handed out 16 associates’s ASL degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about American Sign Language at Phoenix College

2

Coconino Community College
Flagstaff, Arizona

#25 overall quality in Arizona

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Coconino Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on ASL Major in Arizona. This small school is located in Flagstaff, Arizona, and it awarded 0 associates’s ASL degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about American Sign Language at Coconino Community College

2

Pima Community College
Tucson, Arizona

#11 overall quality in Arizona

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Pima Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on ASL Major in Arizona. Located in Tucson, Arizona, this fairly large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified associates’s ASL students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on American Sign Language at Pima County Community College District

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for American Sign Language in the Southwest Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for American Sign Language

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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