2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Psychology in the Southeast Region
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Psychology is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 7th of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 183,889 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, psychology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,496 and had an average of $36,227 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 36,209 psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,473 and $33,137 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 565 psychology graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in psychology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great psychology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the psychology program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree psychology students.
Top 8 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Psychology in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgia Military College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Located in Milledgeville, Georgia, this medium-sized public school handed out 90 diplomas to qualified associates’s psychology students in 2019-2020.
Georgia Military College also made our “Best Psychology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $9,792 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Psychology students per year to attend Georgia Military College.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Holmes Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Holmes Community College is a public institution located in Goodman, Mississippi. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 39 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southeast region associate degree psychology students list, Holmes Community College has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Psychology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $4,321 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Psychology students per year to attend Holmes Community College.
Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Itawamba Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. Itawamba Community College is located in Fulton, Mississippi and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 35 associates’s psychology degrees to qualified students.
ICC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Psychology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend ICC is $5,107 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Psychology students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Cumberlands. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. University of the Cumberlands is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Williamsburg, Kentucky. It awarded 3 associates’s psychology degrees in 2019-2020.
Cumberlands also made our “Best Psychology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $16,894 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Psychology students per year to attend Cumberlands.
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Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Liberty University landed the #5 spot on the list. Liberty University is located in Lynchburg, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 197 associates’s psychology degrees to qualified students.
Liberty University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Psychology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Liberty University is $28,903 for southeast region associate degree psychology students.
Regent University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Regent University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 5 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.
Regent did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Psychology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $15,267 for southeast region associate degree psychology students per year to attend Regent University.
Point University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region ranking. Point is a private not-for-profit institution located in West Point, Georgia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 4 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Point, the school also landed the #7 spot in our “Best Psychology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Point is $16,187 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Psychology students.
Florida Institute of Technology - Online landed the #8 spot on the 2022 Best Value Psychology Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region ranking. Melbourne, Florida is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s psychology degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.
Florida Institute of Technology - Online not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #8 on our “Best Psychology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list.
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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%.
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Footnotes
- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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