2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management Major in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management is the 461st most popular major in the country with 939 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southeast region, there were 171 purchasing, procurement/acquisitions and contracts management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 18 purchasing, procurement/acquisitions and contracts management graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,020 and $16,931 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 14 colleges that offer a degree in purchasing, procurement/acquisitions and contracts management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their purchasing, procurement/acquisitions and contracts management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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The purchasing, procurement/acquisitions and contracts 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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management Major in the Southeast Region”.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree purchasing, procurement/acquisitions and contracts management students.

Top 14 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management in the Southeast Region

1

Greenville Technical College
Greenville, South Carolina

Top 25% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 14 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Greenville Technical College landed the #1 spot on the list. GTC is a fairly large public school situated in Greenville, South Carolina. It awarded 10 associates’s purchasing, procurement/acquisitions and contracts management degrees in 2021-2022.

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3

Trevecca Nazarene University
Nashville, Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Trevecca Nazarene University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management Major in the Southeast Region list. TNU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Nashville, Tennessee. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Purchasing, Procurement/Acquisitions and Contracts Management at Trevecca Nazarene University

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.