2023 Best Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Arkansas

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

There are so many teaching programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools and bootcamps that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Teaching Degree Search has created its Best Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Arkansas ranking.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Top Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Arkansas

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

University of Arkansas - Fort Smith

Fort Smith, Arkansas

8 Total Awards

#1 in Quality in Arkansas

$13,026 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Arkansas - Fort Smith to be the best value school for teaching students who want to pursue a associate degree in Arkansas. Located in Fort Smith, Arkansas, the medium-sized public school awarded 8 diplomas to qualifed associate degree students in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UAFS are $13,026 per year. Associate Degree recipients from this school accumulate an average of $14,238 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.

Online courses are available at UAFS, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 82% took at least some of their classes online.

UAFS did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Arkansas list.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 1 schools only.

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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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