In our days 2D animation is widely used in video games (mobile applications, casinos)
Find any relatively cheap state college that has connections with video game industry, and you’ll be fine.
Don’t take any loans, don’t go to any expensive private art schools, they are not worth it.
I can give you 2 examples of people who work in animation from our state (Texas)
It’s just those who wanted to report where they work and to be bothered with networking from current students.
A&M Visualization, very old and well established program with strong connections in LA
http://viz.arch.tamu.edu/people/former-students/
UT Austin GAMMA, very new program, about 3 years old
http://gammaprogram.utexas.edu/alumni/