2023 Best Value General Education Associate Degree Schools in Tennessee

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

Finding the Best General Education Associate Degree School for You

General Education is the #26 most popular major in Tennessee with 605 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. 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 that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Best Value General Education Associate Degree Schools in Tennessee ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision.

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.

Check out the education associate degree programs at this school if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best General Education Associate Degree School

#1

Cumberland University

Lebanon, TN

12 Associate Degrees

#9 in Quality in Tennessee

$25,412 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Cumberland University the best value school in Tennessee for general education students working on their associate degree. Located in the fringe town of Lebanon, CU is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

CU undergraduate students pay an average of $25,412 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

• 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 the rest 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).
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