2023 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Statistics

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 “Most Well Attended Stats Major for an Associate” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Statistics is the 101st most popular major in the country with 8,503 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 statistics graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Stats Major for an Associate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in statistics. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular statistics programs in the United States.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Stats Major for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Stats Major for an Associate”.

Top 2 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Statistics

1

Amarillo College
Amarillo, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Stats Major for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Amarillo College landed the #1 spot on the list. Amarillo College is a medium-sized public school situated in Amarillo, Texas. It awarded 1 associates’s stats degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Amarillo College Statistics Report

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South Dakota State University
Brookings, South Dakota

Top 5% overall quality in United States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Stats Major for an Associate. This fairly large school is located in Brookings, South Dakota, and it awarded 72 associates’s stats degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Statistics at South Dakota State University

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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