2025 Best General Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

If you pursue a associate degree in general administrative assistant and secretarial science, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #56 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for general administrative assistant and secretarial science students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 200 associate degrees in general administrative assistant and secretarial science during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great General Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science School for Your Associate Degree

The general administrative assistant and secretarial science associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality general administrative assistant and secretarial science program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general administrative assistant and secretarial science students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of general administrative assistant and secretarial science students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general administrative assistant and secretarial science related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general administrative assistant and secretarial science students working on their associate degree.

More Ways to Rank General Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best General Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study General Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science in the Southwest Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in general administrative assistant and secretarial science.

Top Southwest Region Schools for an Associate in General Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science

1

Brazosport College
Lake Jackson, TX

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

24 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Brazosport College if you want to pursue an associate degree in general administrative assistant and secretarial science. Located in the suburb of Lake Jackson, BC is a public college with a small student population.More information about a associate in general administrative assistant and secretarial science from Brazosport College

2

Odessa College
Odessa, TX

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

27 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Odessa College if you want to pursue an associate degree in general administrative assistant and secretarial science. Odessa College is a moderately-sized public college located in the city of Odessa.More information about a associate in general administrative assistant and secretarial science from Odessa College

3

Lone Star College System
The Woodlands, TX

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

23 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in an associate degree in general administrative assistant and secretarial science has to take a look at Lone Star College System. Located in the medium-sized city of The Woodlands, North Harris Montgomery is a public college with a very large student population.More information about a associate in general administrative assistant and secretarial science from Lone Star College System

Best General Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science Colleges by State

Explore the best general administrative assistant and secretarial science schools for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	420	196
Arizona	349	7
New Mexico	255	30
Oklahoma	222	1

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General Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science Related Rankings by Major

One of 8 majors within the Business Support & Assistant Services area of study, General Administrative Assistant and Secretarial Science has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Business & Office Technology	49
Executive Assistant/Executive Secretary	40
General Office Occupations and Clerical Services	9
Other Business Operations Support and Secretarial Services	1

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.