2024 Best Security Science and Technology Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
20Associate Degrees
an associate degree in security science and technology is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #106 out of 328 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of security science and technology. Combined, these schools handed out 20 associate degrees in security science and technology to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Security Science and Technology School for Your Associate Degree
The security science and technology associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality security science and technology program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
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
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on security science and technology students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other security science and technology students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for security science and technology to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized security science and technology related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for security science and technology students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Security Science and Technology Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Security Science and Technology Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Featured Security Science and Technology Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
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.