2022 Best Value Accounting Schools for an Associate in Colorado For Those Making $30-$48k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Schools for an Associate in Colorado For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Accounting is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 7th of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 75,655 degrees were awarded to students with this major.

Across Colorado, there were 1,431 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 206 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,269 and $19,040 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Accounting Schools for an Associate in Colorado For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in accounting. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent accounting programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the accounting program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Accounting Schools for an Associate in Colorado For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Accounting Schools for an Associate in Colorado For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting (Income $30-$48k) in Colorado

#1

Aims Community College

Greeley, Colorado

#2 in overall quality

$8,412 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Aims Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Accounting Schools for an Associate in Colorado For Those Making $30-$48k list. Aims Community College is a medium-sized school located in Greeley, Colorado that handed out 8 associates’s accounting degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Aims Community College, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Accounting Associate Degree Schools in Colorado” ranking. It costs about $8,412 for Colorado Associate Degree Accounting students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Aims Community College.

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#2

Colorado Technical University - Colorado Springs

Colorado Springs, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$16,329 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Accounting Schools for an Associate in Colorado For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado Technical University - Colorado Springs landed the #2 spot on the list. Colorado Technical University - Colorado Springs is a large school located in Colorado Springs, Colorado that handed out 196 associates’s accounting degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Colorado Technical University - Colorado Springs, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Accounting Associate Degree Schools in Colorado” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Colorado Technical University - Colorado Springs is $16,329 for Colorado Associate Degree Accounting students whose families make $30-$48k.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting (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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