2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Accounting and Business/Management Major in the Plains States Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Accounting and Business/Management Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Accounting and Business/Management is the 374th most popular major in the country with 1,637 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 108 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 29 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,723 and $22,140 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Accounting and Business/Management Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in accounting and business/management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their accounting and business/management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Accounting and Business/Management Major in the Plains States Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management in the Plains States Region

1

Mitchell Technical College
Mitchell, South Dakota

Top 25% overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Accounting and Business/Management Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mitchell Technical College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Mitchell, South Dakota, and it awarded 18 associates’s accounting and business/management degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Accounting and Business/Management at Mitchell Tech

2

Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas

Top 10% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kansas State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Accounting and Business/Management Major in the Plains States Region. Manhattan, Kansas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s accounting and business/management degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full K -State Accounting and Business/Management Report

3

Kansas City Kansas Community College
Kansas City, Kansas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Accounting and Business/Management Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Kansas City Kansas Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. Kansas City Kansas Community College is located in Kansas City, Kansas and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 associates’s accounting and business/management degrees to qualified students.

Full Kansas City Kansas Community College Accounting and Business/Management Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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