2024 Best Retail Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
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Colleges in the Southwest Region
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Associate Degrees
Retail Management isn't the most popular associate program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #428 in popularity out of 1020 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Retail Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 7 associate degrees in retail management during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Retail Management School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of retail management for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality retail management program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on retail management students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other retail management students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized retail management related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for retail management students working on their associate degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Retail Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.