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2023 Best Value Education Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$8,447 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$22,224 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Education Associate Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, education students earned 9,682 degrees and certificates from a Minnesota school, making the subject the 3rd in the state.

Today's 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 that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Best Value Education Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Minnesota to see which associate degree programs offered the best value experiences for education students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Education Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for education majors pursuing a associate degree.

Best Minnesota Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Education

Our analysis found Alexandria Technical & Community College to be the best value school for education students who want to pursue a associate degree in Minnesota. ATCC is a small public school located in the remote town of Alexandria.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at ATCC are $5,910 a year.

ATCC also claimed a spot on our Best Education Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.

Full Education at Alexandria Technical & Community College Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend St Cloud Technical and Community College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Education Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota list. St Cloud Technical and Community College is a small public school located in the city of Saint Cloud.

St Cloud Technical and Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $5,874 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

St Cloud Technical and Community College also claimed a spot on our Best Education Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.

Full Education at St Cloud Technical and Community College Report

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Rasmussen University - Minnesota is a great value for education students working on their associate degree. Located in the city of St. Cloud, Rasmussen University - Minnesota is a private for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Rasmussen University - Minnesota are $13,558 a year.

Rasmussen University - Minnesota also took the #4 spot in our Best Education Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota rankings.

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Best Value Education Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Education Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 4,776
Iowa 3,392
South Dakota 1,045
Missouri 7,906
Nebraska 4,167
North Dakota 1,291

Education Majors to Study

Major Annual Graduates
Teacher Education Grade Specific 110,226
Educational Administration 46,469
Teacher Education Subject Specific 43,297
Special Education 36,792
General Education 29,810
Curriculum & Instruction 19,832
Student Counseling 13,858
Instructional Media Design 8,695
Teaching English or French 5,791
Other Education 4,858
Teaching Assistants 2,751
Educational Assessment 2,552
Multilingual Education 1,910
Education Philosophy 737
International Education 293

Related Major Annual Graduates
Social Sciences 205,984
Psychology 195,678
Communication & Journalism 120,571
Family, Consumer & Human Sciences 55,820
History 32,731

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Horadrim.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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