2024 Best History Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

If you plan on getting your associate degree in history, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #50 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best History Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 102 associate degrees in history during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Early-Career Salaries

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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 history students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of history 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 easy is it for history to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized history related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for history students working on their associate degree.

More Ways to Rank History Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best History Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.

 

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study History in the Southeast Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in history.

Top Southeast Region Schools for an Associate in History

1

American Public University System
Charles Town, WV

38 Annual Graduates

$19,737 Median Student Debt

It's hard to beat American Public University System if you want to pursue an associate degree in history. American Military University is a very large private for-profit university located in the fringe town of Charles Town.More information about a associate in history from American Public University System

2

Liberty University
Lynchburg, VA

10 Annual Graduates

Liberty University is one of the best schools in the country for getting an associate degree in history. Liberty University is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Lynchburg.More information about a associate in history from Liberty University

Best History Colleges by State

Explore the best history colleges for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Mississippi	143	30
Georgia	121	21
Tennessee	102	0
Virginia	97	12
West Virginia	92	38
Kentucky	90	1

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Rankings in Majors Related to History

One of 0 majors within the History area of study, History has other similar majors worth exploring.

History Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General History	86
Military History	16

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.