2024 Best Alternative Medicine & Systems Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
3Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
36Associate Degrees
When it comes to popularity, an associate degree in alternative medicine & systems sits in the middle of the road, ranking #183 out of 328 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for alternative medicine & systems students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 36 associate degrees in alternative medicine & systems during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Alternative Medicine & Systems School for Your Associate Degree
The alternative medicine 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 consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 alternative medicine & systems students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of alternative medicine & systems 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.
Student Debt - How much debt alternative medicine & systems students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized alternative medicine & systems related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for alternative medicine & systems students working on their associate degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Alternative Medicine & Systems Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Alternative Medicine & Systems in the Rocky Mountains Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in alternative medicine & systems.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for an Associate in Alternative Medicine
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).