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2023 Most Popular Online Associate Degree Trade Schools in South Carolina
A trade school student has lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education opportunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses.
The Most Popular Online Associate Degree Trade Schools in South Carolina ranking is one of many tools that Trade College Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in South Carolina to see which ones had the most popular online associate degree programs for trade school students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.
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Most Popular Online Trade School Associate Degree Schools in South Carolina
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Our analysis found Greenville Technical College to be the most popular school for trade school students who want to pursue a associate degree in South Carolina. Located in Greenville, South Carolina, the fairly large public school awarded 1,217 diplomas to qualifed associate degree students in 2021-2022.
Full-time students from South Carolina pay an average of $5,882 in tuition and fees if they choose to attend GTC. Those students who come from outside the state pay an average of $10,202. Associate Degree recipients from GTC accumulate an average of $19,101 in student debt by the time they complete their degree. Of those students who received their degree, 60% were women.
To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 82% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you attend Central Carolina Technical College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Most Popular Online Associate Degree Trade Schools in South Carolina list. Central Carolina Technical College is a small public school located in Sumter, South Carolina that handed out 359 associate degrees in 2021-2022.
Students from South Carolina who attend Central Carolina full time pay an average of $6,594 in tuition and fees. If you are from out of state, expect to pay an average of $9,016. By the time they get their associate degree, students from this school have racked up an average of $17,705 in student loans. Of those students who received their degree, 73% were women.
In 2020-2021 about 61% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
More about our data sources and methodologies.