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

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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 Tennessee, there were 19 accounting and finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 accounting and finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,060 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in Tennessee” ranking, we looked at 3 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 Tennessee

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

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

1

Strayer University - Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Strayer University - Tennessee. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in Tennessee list. Strayer University - Tennessee is a private for-profit institution located in Memphis, Tennessee. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Strayer University - Tennessee Accounting and Finance Report

2

Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

#1 overall quality in Tennessee

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in Tennessee. Vanderbilt University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Nashville, Tennessee. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 8 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Accounting and Finance at Vanderbilt University

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DeVry University - Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend DeVry University - Tennessee. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in Tennessee list. This small school is located in Nashville, Tennessee, and it awarded 0 masters’s accounting and finance degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full DeVry University - Tennessee Accounting and Finance Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Finance in the Southeast Region
• 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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