2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management in the Plains States Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Business/Management Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Accounting and Business/Management is the 374th most popular major in the country with 1,637 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 108 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 27 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Business/Management Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in accounting and business/management. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in accounting and business/management.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Business/Management Major in the Plains States Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management in the Plains States Region

1

Maharishi International University
Fairfield, Iowa

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Maharishi International University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Business/Management Major in the Plains States Region list. Maharishi International University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Fairfield, Iowa. The school has a small population, and it awarded 27 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Accounting and Business/Management at Maharishi International University

2

University of Mary
Bismarck, North Dakota

Top 20% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Mary. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Business/Management Major in the Plains States Region. University of Mary is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Bismarck, North Dakota. It awarded 0 masters’s accounting and business/management degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UMary Accounting and Business/Management Report

• Most Focused 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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