2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management (Income $48-$75k) in the Far Western US Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Far Western US region, there were 340 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 31 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,689 and $18,419 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great accounting and business/management programs and 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management (Income $48-$75k) in the Far Western US Region

#1

National Career College

Panorama City, California

#2 in overall quality

$19,290 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend National Career College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Panorama City, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s accounting and business/management degrees to 10 students in 2019-2020.

National Career College also took the #2 spot in our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend National Career College is $19,290 for far western us region associate degree accounting and business/management students whose families make $48-$75k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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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