Management Information Systems is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #102 most popular associate degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 16 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Management Information Systems Associate Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 750 associate degrees in management information systems during the <nil> academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Your choice of management information systems for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include 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.
Early-Career Earnings
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 management information systems students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other management information systems 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 management information systems 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 management information systems related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for management information systems 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 Management Information Systems Associate Degree Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.
