2022 Best Value Retailing and Retail Operations Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Retailing and Retail Operations Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Retailing and Retail Operations is the 560th most popular major in the country with 947 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 220 retailing and retail operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 retailing and retail operations graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great retailing and retail operations 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 retailing and retail operations program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Retailing and Retail Operations Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Retailing and Retail Operations Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree retailing and retail operations students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Retailing and Retail Operations in the Southeast Region

#1

American Public University System

Charles Town, West Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$10,222 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American Public University System. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Retailing and Retail Operations Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. American Military University is a large school located in Charles Town, West Virginia that handed out 6 associates’s retailing and retail operations degrees in 2019-2020.

American Military University also made our “Best Retailing and Retail Operations Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $10,222 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Retailing and Retail Operations students per year to attend American Public University System.

With a freshman retention rate of 98%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Retailing and Retail Operations at American Public University System

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nick Nijhuis.

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