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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management in the Great Lakes Region

5 Ranked Colleges
13 Degrees Awarded
$18,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Accounting and Business/Management is the 323rd most popular major in the country with 1,600 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 152 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in accounting and business/management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality accounting and business/management programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the accounting and business/management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Maranatha Baptist University

Watertown, Wisconsin
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Maranatha Baptist University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Watertown, Wisconsin, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s accounting and business/management students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our great lakes region bachelor’s degree accounting and business/management students list, MBU has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for MBU is $18,736 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree accounting and business/management students.

Full MBU Accounting and Business/Management Report

#2

University of Phoenix - Illinois

Schaumburg, Illinois
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Phoenix - Illinois. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region. This small school is located in Schaumburg, Illinois, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s accounting and business/management degrees in 2019-2020.

UOPX - Illinois not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full University of Phoenix - Illinois Accounting and Business/Management Report

#3

Hope College

Holland, Michigan
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hope College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Holland, Michigan is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s accounting and business/management degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

Hope also took the #1 spot in our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Hope College is $26,562 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree accounting and business/management students.

With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bryant & Stratton College - Parma. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region. Bryant & Stratton College - Parma is a private for-profit institution located in Parma, Ohio. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Bryant & Stratton College - Parma did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. It costs about $15,429 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree accounting and business/management students per year to attend Bryant & Stratton College - Parma.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 100%.

Read more about Accounting and Business/Management at Bryant & Stratton College - Parma

#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bryant & Stratton College - Wauwatosa. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region list. Bryant & Stratton College - Wauwatosa is located in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s accounting and business/management degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Bryant & Stratton College - Wauwatosa, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $13,983 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree accounting and business/management students per year to attend Bryant & Stratton College - Wauwatosa.

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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.

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