2023 Best Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Mississippi
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
It's not easy to decide which teaching program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools and bootcamps that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Teaching Degree Search has created the Best Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Mississippi to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in Mississippi to see which ones offered the best value associate degree programs for teaching students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.
Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
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Top Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Mississippi
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Our analysis found Itawamba Community College to be the best value school for teaching students who want to pursue a associate degree in Mississippi. ICC is located in Fulton, Mississippi and has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 80 associate degrees to qualified students.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at ICC are $5,360 a year. On average, associate degree students take out $12,293 in loans while pursuing their degree.
One thing to take note of is that ICC does offer online classes in some areas. In fact, around 70% of the undergraduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, ICC is ranked #1 for overall quality in Mississippi.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Holmes Community College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Mississippi list. Located in Goodman, Mississippi, the small public school handed out 69 associate degree awards in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at Holmes Community College are $6,210 a year. On average, associate degree students take out $13,848 in loans while pursuing their degree.
Some students may be able to take online classes at Holmes Community College. During the 2019-2020 year, about 70% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Holmes Community College is ranked #3 for overall quality in Mississippi.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Mississippi list. Located in Perkinston, Mississippi, the medium-sized public school awarded 121 diplomas to qualifed associate degree students in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College are $7,250 a year. On average, associate degree students take out $13,702 in loans while pursuing their degree.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online classes at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 59% took at least some of their classes online.
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College also took the #2 spot in our Best Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Mississippi rankings.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 3 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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