2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in North Carolina

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in North Carolina” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 North Carolina, there were 1,994 accounting and finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 accounting and finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,453 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in North Carolina” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree 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 North Carolina

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Finance in North Carolina

1

DeVry University - North Carolina
Charlotte, North Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend DeVry University - North Carolina. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in North Carolina list. Charlotte, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out masters’s accounting and finance degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Accounting and Finance at DeVry University - North Carolina

2

Strayer University - North Carolina
Morrisville, North Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Strayer University - North Carolina. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in North Carolina. Morrisville, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out masters’s accounting and finance degrees to 15 students in 2020-2021.

Full Strayer University - North Carolina Accounting and Finance Report

3

Campbell University
Buies Creek, North Carolina

#23 overall quality in North Carolina

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Campbell University landed the #3 spot on the list. Campbell is a medium-sized school located in Buies Creek, North Carolina that handed out 0 masters’s accounting and finance degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% 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%.

Full Campbell University Accounting and Finance Report

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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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