2025 Best Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping Associate Degree Schools
129Colleges in the United States
5,812Associate Degrees
Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #20 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 129 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping Associate Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 5,812 associate degrees in accounting technology/technician and bookkeeping to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping School for Your Associate Degree
The accounting technology and bookkeeping associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination 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 much a school focuses on accounting technology/technician and bookkeeping students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of accounting technology/technician and bookkeeping students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
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 technology/technician and bookkeeping related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for accounting technology/technician and bookkeeping students working on their associate degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping Associate Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping in the United States
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in accounting technology/technician and bookkeeping. Only those schools that rank in the top 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
25 Top Schools for an Associate in Accounting Technology and Bookkeeping
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Honorable Mentions
Here are some additional great schools for Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping students that almost earned our Best Accounting Technology/Technician and Bookkeeping Associate Degree Schools 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).