2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Entrepreneurial Studies (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Entrepreneurship Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Entrepreneurial Studies is the 117th most popular major in the country with 11,008 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, entrepreneurial studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $42,665 and had an average of $25,440 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,094 entrepreneurial studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,914 and $31,273 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 38 entrepreneurial studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent entrepreneurial studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the entrepreneurial studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Entrepreneurship Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Entrepreneurship Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Entrepreneurship Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Entrepreneurial Studies (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Mohave Community College

Kingman, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$12,333 Average Net Price

$31,741 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Entrepreneurship Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Mohave Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Kingman, Arizona, and it awarded 7 associates’s entrepreneurship degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at MCC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Entrepreneurial Studies Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Mohave Community College is $12,333 for southwest region associate degree entrepreneurship students whose families make $75-$110k.

Read more about Entrepreneurial Studies at Mohave Community College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Entrepreneurial Studies (Income $75-$110k)

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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