2024 Best Accounting and Finance Schools in New York
4Colleges in New York
113Accounting and Finance Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in accounting and finance, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #289 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for accounting and finance students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 113 degrees in accounting and finance to qualified students.
Your choice of accounting and finance school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for accounting and finance schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Accounting and Finance Schools in New York list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Accounting and Finance in New York
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the accounting and finance degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is hard to beat Fordham University if you wish to pursue a degree in accounting and finance. Fordham U is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Bronx. A Best Colleges rank of #109 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Fordham U is a great university overall.
There were approximately 55 accounting and finance students who graduated with this degree at Fordham U in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat DeVry College of New York if you want to pursue a degree in accounting and finance. DeVry College of New York-Midtown Manhattan is a fairly small private for-profit college located in the large city of New York.
There were approximately 27 accounting and finance students who graduated with this degree at DeVry College of New York-Midtown Manhattan in the most recent year we have data available.
Clarkson University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in accounting and finance. Clarkson is a small private not-for-profit university located in the remote town of Potsdam. This university ranks 25th out of 142 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 18 accounting and finance students who graduated with this degree at Clarkson in the most recent data year.
Elmira College is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in accounting and finance. Elmira is a fairly small private not-for-profit college located in the city of Elmira. This college ranks 2072nd out of 2,217 schools for overall quality nationwide.
There were approximately 3 accounting and finance students who graduated with this degree at Elmira in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
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