2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management (Income $48-$75k) in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 $48-$75k” 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree accounting and business/management students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management (Income $48-$75k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Rose State College

Midwest City, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$10,092 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rose State College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Rose State College is a medium-sized school located in Midwest City, Oklahoma that handed out 8 associates’s accounting and business/management degrees in 2019-2020.

RSC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Rose State College is $10,092 for southwest region associate degree accounting and business/management students whose families make $48-$75k.

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#2

Southwest University at El Paso

El Paso, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$19,336 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southwest University at El Paso. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Southwest University at El Paso is a small private for-profit school situated in El Paso, Texas. It awarded 65 associates’s accounting and business/management degrees 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. The estimated yearly cost for Southwest University at El Paso is $19,336 for southwest region associate degree accounting and business/management students whose families make $48-$75k.

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 school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national 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 $48-$75k)

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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