2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 3,648 people earned their degree in accounting and finance, making the major the 289th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 176 accounting and finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 accounting and finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in accounting and finance. That schools that top this list have a program in accounting and finance in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Finance in the Southwest Region

1

Oklahoma Christian University
Edmond, Oklahoma

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Christian University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Edmond, Oklahoma, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s accounting and finance degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Accounting and Finance at OC

2

Howard Payne University
Brownwood, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Howard Payne University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Southwest Region list. Howard Payne University is a small school located in Brownwood, Texas that handed out 0 bachelors’s accounting and finance degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Accounting and Finance at Howard Payne University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Finance

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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