English is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #46 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 5 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best English Associate Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 2,646 associate degrees in english to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great English School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of english for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality english language program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
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 consider a college'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 many resources a school devotes to english students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of english 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 english related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for english students working on their associate degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best English Associate Degree Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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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.