2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Connecticut

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 Major in Connecticut” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 73,172 accounting students received their degree, making the major the 7th most popular in the country.

Across Connecticut, there were 1,182 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 58 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,377 and $19,767 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Connecticut” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in accounting. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their accounting program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Connecticut” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Connecticut

The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut associate degree accounting students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting in Connecticut

1

Post University
Waterbury, Connecticut

#11 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Post University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Connecticut. Post University is a fairly large school located in Waterbury, Connecticut that handed out 48 associates’s accounting degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Accounting at Post University

2

Goodwin College
East Hartford, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Goodwin College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Connecticut. This small school is located in East Hartford, Connecticut, and it awarded 10 associates’s accounting degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Accounting at Goodwin College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting in the New England Region
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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

• *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.

Credits

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