2022 Best Value General Business Schools for an Associate in North Carolina

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value General Business Schools for an Associate in North Carolina” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

With 55,749 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, general business/commerce is the 9th most popular major in the United States.

Across North Carolina, there were 443 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 121 general business/commerce graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,912 and $18,026 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value General Business Schools for an Associate in North Carolina” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general business/commerce. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general business/commerce programs and cost less that 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 business/commerce program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value General Business Schools for an Associate in North Carolina” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value General Business Schools for an Associate in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Business Schools for an Associate in North Carolina.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for General Business/Commerce in North Carolina

#1

Strayer University - North Carolina

Morrisville, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$22,816 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Strayer University - North Carolina. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value General Business Schools for an Associate in North Carolina list. Strayer University - North Carolina is a private for-profit institution located in Morrisville, North Carolina. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 115 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Strayer University - North Carolina not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Business/Commerce Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. The yearly cost to attend Strayer University - North Carolina is $22,816 for North Carolina Associate Degree General Business students.

Read more about General Business/Commerce at Strayer University - North Carolina

#2

Montreat College

Montreat, North Carolina

#2 in overall quality

$22,946 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Montreat College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value General Business Schools for an Associate in North Carolina. Montreat College is located in Montreat, North Carolina and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 associates’s general business degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Montreat College, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best General Business/Commerce Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina” ranking. It costs about $22,946 for North Carolina Associate Degree General Business students per year to attend Montreat College.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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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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