2024 Best Accounting and Finance Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in accounting and finance, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #270 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Accounting and Finance Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 24 bachelor's degrees in accounting and finance to qualified students.

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Choosing a Great Accounting and Finance School for Your Bachelor's Degree

The accounting and finance bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality accounting and finance program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to accounting and finance students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of accounting and finance students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized accounting and finance related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for accounting and finance students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Accounting and Finance Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Accounting and Finance Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Accounting and Finance in the Southeast Region

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for accounting and finance students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Top Southeast Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Accounting and Finance

1

Keiser University - Ft Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale, FL

9 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in accounting and finance has to take a look at Keiser University - Ft Lauderdale. Located in the midsize city of Fort Lauderdale, Keiser University - Ft Lauderdale is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in accounting and finance from Keiser University - Ft Lauderdale

2

Johnson & Wales University - Charlotte
Charlotte, NC

3 Annual Graduates

Johnson & Wales University - Charlotte is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in accounting and finance. JWU Charlotte is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Charlotte.More information about a bachelor’s in accounting and finance from Johnson & Wales University - Charlotte

3

Maryville College
Maryville, TN

9 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in accounting and finance has to take a look at Maryville College. Located in the suburb of Maryville, Maryville College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in accounting and finance from Maryville College

Best Accounting and Finance Colleges by State

Explore the best accounting and finance colleges for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	492	12
Tennessee	460	9
North Carolina	453	3
Virginia	421	0

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Accounting and Finance Related Rankings by Major

One of 5 majors within the Accounting area of study, Accounting and Finance has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Majors Related to Accounting and Finance

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Accounting	11,157
Accounting and Business/Management	183
Other Accounting and Related Services	7

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Pixabay. More about our data sources and methodologies.