2025 Best General Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
9Colleges in the Southeast Region
587Associate Degrees
Ranked #63 in popularity, general education is one of the most sought-after associate degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 9 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 587 associate degrees in general education during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great General Education School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of general education for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality general education 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 account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination 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 much a school focuses on general education students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general education students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
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 education related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general education students working on their associate degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Education Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
Your choice of general education for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality general education program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
