2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in Nevada

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 Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in Nevada” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

With 556,813 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, liberal arts / sciences and humanities is the 3rd most popular major in the United States. In 2019-2020, liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $28,337 and had an average of $17,430 in loans still to pay off.

Across Nevada, there were 1,765 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,049 and $14,200 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1,627 liberal arts / sciences and humanities graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,756 and $17,303 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in Nevada” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in liberal arts / sciences and humanities. That schools that top this list have a program in liberal arts / sciences and humanities in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in Nevada

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in Nevada”.

Top 4 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities in Nevada

1

Western Nevada College
Carson City, Nevada

#8 overall quality in Nevada

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Nevada College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in Nevada list. Western Nevada College is a small school located in Carson City, Nevada that handed out 400 associates’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

College of Southern Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada

#3 overall quality in Nevada

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in Nevada that were part of this year’s ranking, College of Southern Nevada landed the #2 spot on the list. College of Southern Nevada is a public institution located in Las Vegas, Nevada. The school has a large population, and it awarded 866 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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3

Truckee Meadows Community College
Reno, Nevada

#5 overall quality in Nevada

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Truckee Meadows Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in Nevada list. This medium-sized school is located in Reno, Nevada, and it awarded 275 associates’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities degrees in 2020-2021.

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4

Great Basin College
Elko, Nevada

#9 overall quality in Nevada

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Great Basin College. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Liberal Arts / Sciences & Humanities Major in Nevada. Located in Elko, Nevada, this small public school handed out 86 diplomas to qualified associates’s liberal arts / sciences and humanities students in 2020-2021.

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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.

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