2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Athletic Training in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Athletic Trainer Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Athletic Training is the 142nd most popular major in the country with 4,467 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 947 athletic training graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 35 athletic training graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent athletic training programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the athletic training program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Athletic Trainer Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Athletic Training in the Southeast Region

#1

East Mississippi Community College

Scooba, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$6,039 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Athletic Trainer Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, East Mississippi Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Scooba, Mississippi, and it awarded 30 associates’s athletic trainer degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at EMCC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Athletic Training Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend EMCC is $6,039 for southeast region associate degree athletic trainer students.

Read more about Athletic Training at East Mississippi Community College

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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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