2024 Best General Social Sciences Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
4Colleges in the Southwest Region
569Associate Degrees
Ranked #11 in popularity, general social sciences is one of the most sought-after associate degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of general social sciences. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 569 associate degrees in general social sciences during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great General Social Sciences School for Your Associate Degree
The general social sciences associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. 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 quality 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.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general social sciences students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of general social sciences students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general social sciences related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general social sciences students working on their associate degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Social Sciences Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Rankings in Majors Related to General Social Sciences
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Notes and References
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.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).