Ranked #3 in popularity, business, management & marketing is one of the most sought-after associate degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 60 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of business, management & marketing. Combined, these schools handed out 13,601 associate degrees in business, management & marketing to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Business, Management & Marketing School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of business, management & marketing for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to business, management & marketing students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other business, management & marketing students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for business, management & marketing to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized business, management & marketing related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for business, management & marketing students working on their associate degree.
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 Business, Management & Marketing Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Business, Management & Marketing in the Southwest Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in business, management & marketing.
10 Top Southwest Region Schools for an Associate in Business, Management & Marketing
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Here are some additional great schools for Business, Management & Marketing students in the Southwest Region that almost earned our Best Business, Management & Marketing Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region award.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).