2023 Most Well Attended Accounting Major in Rhode Island for an Associate

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Accounting Major in Rhode Island for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

With 99,265 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, accounting is the 8th most popular major in the United States. In 2019-2020, accounting graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $47,712 and had an average of $26,539 in loans still to pay off.

Across Rhode Island, there were 583 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,711 and $25,892 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 27 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,152 and $15,702 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Accounting Major in Rhode Island for an Associate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in accounting. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in accounting.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Accounting Major in Rhode Island for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Accounting Major in Rhode Island for an Associate”.

Top 2 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Accounting in Rhode Island

1

Community College of Rhode Island
Warwick, Rhode Island

#7 overall quality in Rhode Island

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Community College of Rhode Island. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Accounting Major in Rhode Island for an Associate. This fairly large school is located in Warwick, Rhode Island, and it awarded 26 associates’s accounting degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Accounting at CCRI

2

Johnson & Wales University - Providence
Providence, Rhode Island

#9 overall quality in Rhode Island

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 Most Well Attended Accounting Major in Rhode Island for an Associate. JWU Providence is located in Providence, Rhode Island and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 associates’s accounting degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on Accounting at Johnson & Wales University - Providence

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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.

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