American Sign Language is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #88 most popular associate degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 6 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of american sign language. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 794 associate degrees in american sign language during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great American Sign Language School for Your Associate Degree
The asl 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. 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 take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of associate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their associate degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
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 american sign language students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of american sign language 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.
Student Debt - How much debt american sign language students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized american sign language related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for american sign language 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 American Sign Language Associate Degree Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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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).