2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Social Work in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Social Work Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Social Work is the 12th most popular major in the country with 57,618 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, social work graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $36,459 and had an average of $30,084 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 11,353 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,519 and $31,090 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 174 social work graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Social Work Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in social work. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great social work programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the social work program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Social Work Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Social Work Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Social Work in the Southeast Region

#1

Itawamba Community College

Fulton, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$5,107 Average Net Price

$24,421 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Itawamba Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Social Work Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Fulton, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s social work degrees to 22 students in 2019-2020.

ICC also made our “Best Social Work Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $5,107 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Social Work students per year to attend Itawamba Community College.

Read more about Social Work at ICC

#2

Georgia Military College

Milledgeville, Georgia

#2 in overall quality

$9,792 Average Net Price

$15,817 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Social Work Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia Military College landed the #2 spot on the list. Georgia Military College is a medium-sized public school situated in Milledgeville, Georgia. It awarded 37 associates’s social work degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region associate degree social work students list, Georgia Military College has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Social Work Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Georgia Military College is $9,792 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Social Work students.

Read more about Social Work at Georgia Military College

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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%.

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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