2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Finance in the New England 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 New England region, there were 404 accounting and finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 46 accounting and finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in accounting and finance. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their accounting and finance program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the New England Region

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

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Finance in the New England Region

1

Cambridge College
Boston, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cambridge College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the New England Region list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s accounting and finance degrees to 3 students 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.

Full Cambridge College Accounting and Finance Report

2

Franklin Pierce University
Rindge, New Hampshire

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Franklin Pierce University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the New England Region list. Franklin Pierce University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Rindge, New Hampshire. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Accounting and Finance at Franklin Pierce

3

Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, New Hampshire

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern New Hampshire University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the New England Region. Located in Manchester, New Hampshire, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 42 diplomas to qualified masters’s accounting and finance students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Accounting and Finance at SNHU

4

University of New Haven
West Haven, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Haven. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the New England Region. University of New Haven is a private not-for-profit institution located in West Haven, Connecticut. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Accounting and Finance at University of New Haven

• Most Focused Master’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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