2025 Best Teacher Education Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
2Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
95Associate Degrees
If you pursue a associate degree in teacher education, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #79 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of teacher education. Combined, these schools handed out 95 associate degrees in teacher education to qualified students.
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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 teacher education students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of teacher education 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 teacher education related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for teacher education students working on their associate degree.
The teacher education school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Teacher Education Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region.
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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).