2022 Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 1,600 people earned their degree in accounting and business/management, making the major the 323rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 236 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 73 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

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 Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree accounting and business/management students.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management in the Southwest Region

#1

Rose State College

Midwest City, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$8,632 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rose State College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region. RSC is a medium-sized school located in Midwest City, Oklahoma that handed out 8 associates’s accounting and business/management degrees in 2019-2020.

RSC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Rose State College is $8,632 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Accounting and Business/Management students.

Read more about Accounting and Business/Management at RSC

#2

Southwest University at El Paso

El Paso, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$17,814 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southwest University at El Paso. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region. Southwest University at El Paso is a private for-profit institution located in El Paso, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 65 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Southwest University at El Paso also made our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for Southwest University at El Paso is $17,814 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Accounting and Business/Management students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 4.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Accounting and Business/Management at Southwest University at El Paso

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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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