2022 Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Accounting and Business/Management is the 323rd most popular major in the country with 1,600 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 236 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 73 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in accounting and business/management. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent accounting and business/management programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the accounting and business/management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The accounting and business/management school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k”.

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Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree accounting and business/management students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management (Income $30-$48k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Rose State College

Midwest City, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$8,276 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rose State College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. RSC is located in Midwest City, Oklahoma and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 associates’s accounting and business/management degrees to qualified students.

RSC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Rose State College is $8,276 for southwest region associate degree accounting and business/management students whose families make $30-$48k.

Read full report on Accounting and Business/Management at Rose State College

#2

Southwest University at El Paso

El Paso, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$18,576 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Southwest University at El Paso landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in El Paso, Texas, this small private for-profit school handed out 65 diplomas to qualified associates’s accounting and business/management students in 2019-2020.

Southwest University at El Paso did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $18,576 for southwest region associate degree accounting and business/management students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Southwest University at El Paso.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Accounting and Business/Management at Southwest University at El Paso

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management (Income $30-$48k)

Notes and References

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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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