2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Archeology in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 339 people earned their degree in archeology, making the major the 724th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 17 archeology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 archeology graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Archeology Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in archeology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in archeology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Archeology Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree archeology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Archeology in the Southwest Region

1

Austin Community College District
Austin, Texas

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Archeology Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Austin Community College District landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Austin, Texas, and it awarded 6 associates’s archeology degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Austin Community College District Archeology Report

2

Pima Community College
Tucson, Arizona

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pima Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Archeology Major in the Southwest Region list. Pima Community College is located in Tucson, Arizona and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 associates’s archeology degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Archeology at Pima County Community College District

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Archeology

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.