2025 Best Photography Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
2Colleges in the Southeast Region
35Associate Degrees
If you plan on getting your associate degree in photography, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #202 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for photography students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 35 associate degrees in photography 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 much a school focuses on photography students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of photography 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 photography related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for photography 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 Photography 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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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