Liberal Arts General Studies is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #1 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Wyoming to determine which ones were the best for liberal arts general studies students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 306 associate degrees in liberal arts general studies during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Liberal Arts General Studies School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of liberal arts general studies for getting your associate degree school matters. 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 account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of various 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 liberal arts general studies students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other liberal arts general studies students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
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 liberal arts general studies 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 liberal arts general studies related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for liberal arts general studies students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Liberal Arts General Studies 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 Liberal Arts General Studies Associate Degree Schools in Wyoming list to help you make the college decision.
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Featured Liberal Arts General Studies Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Any student who is interested in an associate degree in liberal arts general studies has to take a look at Casper College. Located in the small city of Casper, Casper College is a public college with a small student population.
Associate students who receive their degree from the liberal arts program earn about $23,885 in their early career salary.
Northern Wyoming Community College District is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting an associate degree in liberal arts general studies. Northern Wyoming Community College District is a small public college located in the remote town of Sheridan.
Those liberal arts general studies students who get their associate degree from Northern Wyoming Community College District make $5,871 more than the average liberal arts graduate.
Any student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in liberal arts general studies needs to check out Western Wyoming Community College. Located in the remote town of Rock Springs, WWCC is a public college with a small student population.
Students who graduate with their associate from the liberal arts program report average early career earnings of $29,501.
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.