2024 Best Accounting Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
30
Colleges in the Plains States Region
539
Associate Degrees
Ranked #35 in popularity,
accounting is one of the most sought-after associate degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 30 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for accounting students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 539 associate degrees in accounting during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Accounting School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of accounting for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality accounting program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on accounting students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other accounting students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized accounting related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for accounting students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Accounting Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Accounting Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.