2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Athletic Training is the 187th most popular major in the country with 3,767 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 346 athletic training graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 9 athletic training graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in athletic training. That schools that top this list have a program in athletic training in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Athletic Training in the Southwest Region

1

Santa Fe Community College
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Santa Fe Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Santa Fe Community College is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 associates’s athletic trainer degrees to qualified students.

Full SFCC Athletic Training Report

2

Tyler Junior College
Tyler, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tyler Junior College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in the Southwest Region. Tyler Junior College is a fairly large public school situated in Tyler, Texas. It awarded 4 associates’s athletic trainer degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Tyler Junior College Athletic Training Report

3

Grayson College
Denison, Texas

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Grayson College landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Denison, Texas, this small public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified associates’s athletic trainer students in 2020-2021.

Full Grayson College Athletic Training Report

4

Central Arizona College
Coolidge, Arizona

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Athletic Trainer Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Central Arizona College landed the #4 spot on the list. This small school is located in Coolidge, Arizona, and it awarded 0 associates’s athletic trainer degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Pinal County Community College Athletic Training Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Athletic Training

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.