Finance is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #318 most popular associate degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of finance. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 154 associate degrees in finance during the <nil> academic year.
Choosing a Great Finance School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of finance for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality finance 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
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to finance students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of finance students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized finance related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for finance students working on their associate degree.
The finance 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 the Best Finance Associate Degree Schools.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Finance in the United States
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree 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).