2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Other Science Technologies/Technicians in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Other Science Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 3,145 people earned their degree in other science technologies/technicians, making the major the 189th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, other science technologies/technicians graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $46,525 and had an average of $19,488 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,175 other science technologies/technicians graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,200 and $15,024 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 497 other science technologies/technicians graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality other science technologies/technicians programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the other science technologies/technicians program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Other Science Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Other Science Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree other science tech students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Other Science Technologies/Technicians in the Southeast Region

#1

Pierpont Community and Technical College

Fairmont, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$9,378 Average Net Price

$42,682 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Other Science Tech Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Pierpont Community and Technical College landed the #1 spot on the list. Pierpont Community and Technical College is a public institution located in Fairmont, West Virginia. The school has a small population, and it awarded 23 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Pierpont Community and Technical College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Other Science Technologies/Technicians Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Pierpont Community and Technical College is $9,378 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Other Science Tech students.

Read more about Other Science Technologies/Technicians at Pierpont Community and Technical College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Other Science Technologies/Technicians

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

• *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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