Business, Management & Marketing is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #3 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 9 schools in Arizona to determine which ones were the best for business, management & marketing students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 4,767 associate degrees in business, management & marketing to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Business, Management & Marketing School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of business, management & marketing 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. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality 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.
Average Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of associate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their associate degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to business, management & marketing students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other business, management & marketing 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.
Student Debt - How easy is it for business, management & marketing to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized business, management & marketing related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for business, management & marketing students working on their associate degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Business, Management & Marketing Associate Degree Schools in Arizona ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Business, Management & Marketing in Arizona
Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for business, management & marketing students seeking a an associate degree.
Top Arizona Schools for an Associate in Business, Management & Marketing
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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).