2025 Best Accounting and Finance Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina
11Colleges in North Carolina
525Associate Degrees
If you plan on getting your associate degree in accounting and finance, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #209 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 11 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Accounting and Finance Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 525 associate degrees in accounting and finance during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Accounting and Finance School for Your Associate Degree
The accounting and finance associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality accounting and finance program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to accounting and finance students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other accounting and finance students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized accounting and finance related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for accounting and finance students working on their associate degree.
The accounting and finance school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Accounting and Finance Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina.
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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
The accounting and finance associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality accounting and finance program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
