2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management (Income $30-$48k) in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Accounting and Business/Management is the 323rd most popular major in the country with 1,600 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 236 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in accounting and business/management. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent accounting and business/management programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the accounting and business/management program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree accounting and business/management students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management (Income $30-$48k) in the Southwest Region

#1

University of Phoenix - Arizona

Tempe, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$13,378 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Phoenix - Arizona landed the #1 spot on the list. UOPX - Arizona is located in Tempe, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 20 bachelors’s accounting and business/management degrees to qualified students.

UOPX - Arizona also took the #1 spot in our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $13,378 for southwest region bachelor’s degree accounting and business/management students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend University of Phoenix - Arizona.

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#2

Wiley College

Marshall, Texas

#4 in overall quality

$17,314 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wiley College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Located in Marshall, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s accounting and business/management students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Wiley College, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $17,314 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Accounting and Business/Management students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Wiley College.

Read more about Accounting and Business/Management at Wiley College

#3

Strayer University - Texas

Austin, Texas

#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Strayer University - Texas. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Austin, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s accounting and business/management degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

Strayer University - Texas did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.

Read more about Accounting and Business/Management at Strayer University - Texas

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management (Income $30-$48k)

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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