2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Speech-Language Pathology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist is the 134th most popular major in the country with 5,872 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,227 speech-language pathology/pathologist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 15 speech-language pathology/pathologist graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Speech-Language Pathology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in speech-language pathology/pathologist. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent speech-language pathology/pathologist 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 speech-language pathology/pathologist program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Speech-Language Pathology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree speech-language pathology students.

Top 3 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist in the Southeast Region

#1

Copiah-Lincoln Community College

Wesson, Mississippi

#2 in overall quality

$3,714 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Copiah-Lincoln Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Speech-Language Pathology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Wesson, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s speech-language pathology degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

Copiah-Lincoln Community College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $3,714 for southeast region associate degree speech-language pathology students per year to attend Copiah-Lincoln Community College.

Read more about Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist at Copiah-Lincoln Community College

#2

Southern Adventist University

Collegedale, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$22,661 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Speech-Language Pathology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Adventist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Collegedale, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 6 degrees to qualified associates’s speech-language pathology students in 2019-2020.

Southern Adventist not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Southern Adventist University is $22,661 for southeast region associate degree speech-language pathology students.

Read more about Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist at Southern Adventist

#3

East Mississippi Community College

Scooba, Mississippi

#3 in overall quality

$6,039 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Mississippi Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Speech-Language Pathology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. East Mississippi Community College is a public institution located in Scooba, Mississippi. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

EMCC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend EMCC is $6,039 for southeast region associate degree speech-language pathology students.

Read full report on Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist at EMCC

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist

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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