2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Master’s in the Southeast 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 Southeast region, there were 272 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 36 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in accounting and business/management. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent accounting and business/management programs, but they also 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 accounting and business/management program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree accounting and business/management students.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management in the Southeast Region

#1

Mississippi College

Clinton, Mississippi

#2 in overall quality

$12,322 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi College landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Clinton, Mississippi, and it awarded 7 masters’s accounting and business/management degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at MC, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at MC are $12,322, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Accounting and Business/Management at MC

#2

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia

#1 in overall quality

$44,676 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory University landed the #2 spot on the list. Emory is a fairly large school located in Atlanta, Georgia that handed out 22 masters’s accounting and business/management degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Emory, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Emory are $44,676.

Read more about Accounting and Business/Management at Emory University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management

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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