2025 Best Software Engineering Associate Degree Schools
4Colleges in the United States
113Associate Degrees
Software Engineering isn't the most popular associate program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #438 in popularity out of 1020 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for software engineering students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 113 associate degrees in software engineering during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great Software Engineering School for Your Associate Degree
The computer software engineering associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. 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 consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection 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 many resources a school devotes to software engineering students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of software engineering 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 software engineering related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for software engineering students working on their associate degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Software Engineering Associate Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.
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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.
by our College Data Analytics Team
The computer software engineering associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. 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.
