2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Finance in New Jersey

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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 New Jersey, there were 3 accounting and finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 accounting and finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,237 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in New Jersey” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in accounting and finance. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in accounting and finance.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in New Jersey

The colleges and universities below are the best for new jersey master’s degree accounting and finance students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Finance in New Jersey

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Rider University
Lawrenceville, New Jersey

#11 overall quality in New Jersey

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in New Jersey that were part of this year’s ranking, Rider University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and it awarded 3 masters’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. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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Strayer University - New Jersey
Cherry Hill, New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Strayer University - New Jersey. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in New Jersey list. Strayer University - New Jersey is a small private for-profit school situated in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. It awarded 0 masters’s accounting and finance degrees in 2020-2021.

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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

• *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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