2025 Best Accounting and Finance Associate Degree Schools
11Colleges in the United States
534Associate Degrees
Accounting and Finance is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #209 most popular associate degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 11 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Accounting and Finance Associate Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 534 associate degrees in accounting and finance to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Accounting and Finance School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of accounting and finance 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. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good 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.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on accounting and finance students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of accounting and finance students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized accounting and finance related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for accounting and finance 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 Accounting and Finance Associate Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.
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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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
Your choice of accounting and finance 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. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
