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2023 Best Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Schools Ranked
$8,447 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$24,148 Avg Student Debt*

Today's teaching students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school or bootcamp that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Teaching Degree Search has developed this Best Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Minnesota to see which associate degree programs offered the best value experiences for teaching students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

Top Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota

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15 Total Awards
$5,910 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Alexandria Technical & Community College the best value school in Minnesota for teaching students working on their associate degree. Located in Alexandria, Minnesota, the small public school awarded 15 diplomas to qualifed associate degree students in 2020-2021.

ATCC undergraduate students pay an average of $5,910 in tuition and fees each year. Associate Degree recipients from this school accumulate an average of $15,116 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.

You may have the opportunity to take online classes at ATCC. During the 2019-2020 year, about 48% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.

ATCC also made our Best Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota list, coming in at #2.

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9 Total Awards
$5,874 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent associate degree programs at St Cloud Technical and Community College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value teaching schools in Minnesota. St Cloud Technical and Community College is a small public school situated in Saint Cloud, Minnesota. It awarded 9 associate degrees in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at St Cloud Technical and Community College are $5,874 a year. Associate Degree recipients from this school accumulate an average of $20,104 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.

Online courses are available at St Cloud Technical and Community College, 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 75% took at least some of their classes online.

St Cloud Technical and Community College did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota list.

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#3

Rasmussen University - Minnesota

St. Cloud, Minnesota
28 Total Awards
$13,558 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent associate degree programs at Rasmussen University - Minnesota helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value teaching schools in Minnesota. Rasmussen University - Minnesota is a small private for-profit school located in St. Cloud, Minnesota that handed out 28 associate degrees in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at Rasmussen University - Minnesota are $13,558 a year. Associate Degree recipients from this school accumulate an average of $27,551 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.

Online courses are available at Rasmussen University - Minnesota, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 99% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

Rasmussen University - Minnesota did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota list.

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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%.

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