2025 Best Executive Assistant/Executive Secretary Associate Degree Schools
5Colleges in the United States
382Associate Degrees
an associate degree in executive assistant/executive secretary is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #238 out of 1020 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 5 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for executive assistant/executive secretary students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 382 associate degrees in executive assistant/executive secretary during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great Executive Assistant/Executive Secretary School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of executive assistant/executive secretary for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of various 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 many resources a school devotes to executive assistant/executive secretary students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of executive assistant/executive secretary 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 executive assistant/executive secretary related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for executive assistant/executive secretary students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Executive Assistant/Executive Secretary Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Executive Assistant/Executive Secretary Associate Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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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.