2022 Best Value General Office Occupations and Clerical Services Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

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 General Office Occupations and Clerical Services Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Office Occupations and Clerical Services is the 889th most popular major in the country with 1,852 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 366 general office occupations and clerical services graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 19 general office occupations and clerical services graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general office occupations and clerical services 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 general office occupations and clerical services program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value General Office Occupations and Clerical Services Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree general office occupations and clerical services students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Office Occupations and Clerical Services in the Southeast Region

#1

Bob Jones University

Greenville, South Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$12,923 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bob Jones University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value General Office Occupations and Clerical Services Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Bob Jones University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Greenville, South Carolina. It awarded 19 associates’s general office occupations and clerical services degrees in 2019-2020.

Bob Jones University also made our “Best General Office Occupations and Clerical Services Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $12,923 for Southeast Region Associate Degree General Office Occupations and Clerical Services students per year to attend Bob Jones University.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The low student loan default rate of 2.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on General Office Occupations and Clerical Services at Bob Jones University

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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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