2025 Best Finance & Financial Management Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
2Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
79Associate Degrees
Finance & Financial 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 #139 in popularity out of 328 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.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Finance & Financial Management Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 79 associate degrees in finance & financial management to qualified students.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on finance & financial management students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other finance & financial management students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt finance & financial management students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized finance & financial management related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for finance & financial management students working on their associate degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Finance & Financial Management Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Finance & Financial Management in the Great Lakes Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in finance & financial management.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for an Associate in Finance
Managing and quantifying money is at the heart of the online bachelor's degree in finance at SNHU. You'll learn the fundamentals of investments, address key managerial issues, examine ethics from every angle and build the skillset to be a player in the multidimensional business marketplace.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).