2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 152 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 74 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,508 and $17,812 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in accounting and business/management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality accounting and business/management programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the accounting and business/management program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 3 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

Oakland Community College

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

#1 in overall quality

$2,825 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oakland Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. Oakland Community College is located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 57 associates’s accounting and business/management degrees to qualified students.

Oakland Community College also made our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for Oakland Community College is $2,825 for great lakes region associate degree accounting and business/management students with aid.

Read full report on Accounting and Business/Management at Oakland Community College

#2

Ohio Business College-Sheffield

Sheffield Village, Ohio

#2 in overall quality

$23,681 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Ohio Business College-Sheffield landed the #2 spot on the list. Ohio Business College-Sheffield is a small school located in Sheffield Village, Ohio that handed out 11 associates’s accounting and business/management degrees in 2019-2020.

Ohio Business College-Sheffield also took the #2 spot in our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $23,681 for Great Lakes Region Associate Degree Accounting and Business/Management students with aid per year to attend Ohio Business College-Sheffield.

Full Ohio Business College-Sheffield Accounting and Business/Management Report

#3

Ohio Business College-Sandusky

Sandusky, Ohio

#3 in overall quality

$22,541 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio Business College-Sandusky. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Sandusky, Ohio, this small private for-profit school awarded 5 degrees to qualified associates’s accounting and business/management students in 2019-2020.

Ohio Business College-Sandusky also took the #3 spot in our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $22,541 for great lakes region associate degree accounting and business/management students with aid per year to attend Ohio Business College-Sandusky.

Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Accounting and Business/Management at Ohio Business College-Sandusky

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management (With Aid)

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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