2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Project Management

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 “Best Value Project Management Schools for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Project Management is the 282nd most popular major in the country with 3,713 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 36 project management graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Project Management Schools for an Associate” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in project management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality project management programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the project management program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Project Management Schools for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree project management students.

Top 3 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Project Management

#1

LDS Business College

Salt Lake City, Utah

#3 in overall quality

$7,832 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend LDS Business College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Project Management Schools for an Associate. LDS Business College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The school has a small population, and it awarded 13 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

LDS Business College also took the #3 spot in our “Best Project Management Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend LDS Business College is $7,832 for associate degree project management students.

Full LDS Business College Project Management Report

#2

Columbia Basin College

Pasco, Washington

#1 in overall quality

$9,628 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia Basin College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Project Management Schools for an Associate list. Pasco, Washington is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s project management degrees to 18 students in 2019-2020.

CBC also made our “Best Project Management Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. The estimated yearly cost for CBC is $9,628 for Associate Degree Project Management students.

Full CBC Project Management Report

#3

Saint Paul College

Saint Paul, Minnesota

#2 in overall quality

$11,613 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Paul College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Project Management Schools for an Associate list. Located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, this medium-sized public school handed out 4 degrees to qualified associates’s project management students in 2019-2020.

Saint Paul College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Project Management Associate Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Saint Paul College is $11,613 for associate degree project management students.

Full Saint Paul College Project Management Report

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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