2023 Best Value Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Missouri

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Today's teaching students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 Missouri to help you in your search for the best school for you.

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 Missouri

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Three Rivers College

Poplar Bluff, Missouri

42 Total Awards

#1 in Quality in Missouri

$6,510 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Three Rivers College the best value school in Missouri for teaching students working on their associate degree. Three Rivers College is located in Poplar Bluff, Missouri and has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 42 associate degrees to qualified students.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Three Rivers College are $6,510 per year. By the time they get their associate degree, students from this school have racked up an average of $17,201 in student loans.

One thing to take note of is that Three Rivers College does offer online classes in some areas. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 87% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

Three Rivers College also took the #1 spot in our Best Teaching Associate Degree Schools in Missouri rankings.

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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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