2022 Best Value Accounting Schools for an Associate in Rhode Island

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Accounting Schools for an Associate in Rhode Island” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

With 101,094 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, accounting is the 8th most popular major in the United States. In 2017-2018, accounting graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $44,557 and had an average of $26,381 in loans still to pay off.

Across Rhode Island, there were 561 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,411 and $23,989 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 32 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Accounting Schools for an Associate in Rhode Island” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in accounting. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great accounting programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the accounting program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Accounting Schools for an Associate in Rhode Island

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Accounting Schools for an Associate in Rhode Island.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting in Rhode Island

#1

Community College of Rhode Island

Warwick, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$5,878 Average Net Price

$35,060 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Accounting Schools for an Associate in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, Community College of Rhode Island landed the #1 spot on the list. CCRI is a public institution located in Warwick, Rhode Island. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 31 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

CCRI also took the #1 spot in our “Best Accounting Associate Degree Schools in Rhode Island” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for CCRI is $5,878 for Rhode Island Associate Degree Accounting students.

Full Community College of Rhode Island Accounting Report

#2

Johnson & Wales University - Providence

Providence, Rhode Island

#2 in overall quality

$26,775 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Johnson & Wales University - Providence. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Accounting Schools for an Associate in Rhode Island. Johnson & Wales University - Providence is a medium-sized school located in Providence, Rhode Island that handed out 1 associates’s accounting degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at JWU Providence, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Accounting Associate Degree Schools in Rhode Island” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Johnson & Wales University - Providence is $26,775 for Rhode Island Associate Degree Accounting students.

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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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