2022 Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,600 people earned their degree in accounting and business/management, making the major the 323rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 272 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 22 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the accounting and business/management program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree accounting and business/management students.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management in the Southeast Region

#1

Blue Ridge Community and Technical College

Martinsburg, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$6,293 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Blue Ridge Community and Technical College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Blue Ridge Community and Technical College is a small school located in Martinsburg, West Virginia that handed out 17 associates’s accounting and business/management degrees in 2019-2020.

Blue Ridge Community and Technical College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Blue Ridge Community and Technical College is $6,293 for southeast region associate degree accounting and business/management students.

Full Blue Ridge Community and Technical College Accounting and Business/Management Report

#2

Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College

Moorefield, West Virginia

#2 in overall quality

$3,555 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Located in Moorefield, West Virginia, this small public school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified associates’s accounting and business/management students in 2019-2020.

Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College is $3,555 for southeast region associate degree accounting and business/management students.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Accounting and Business/Management at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management

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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