2024 Best Accounting Master's Degree Schools in Rhode Island
3Colleges in Rhode Island
70Master's Degrees
If you pursue a master's degree in accounting, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #7 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Accounting Master's Degree Schools in Rhode Island ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 70 master's degrees in accounting during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Accounting School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of accounting for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality accounting program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various 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 much a school focuses on accounting students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other accounting students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
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 related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for accounting students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Accounting Master's Degree Schools in Rhode Island ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Accounting in Rhode Island
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in accounting.
Top Rhode Island Schools for a Master's in Accounting
Bryant University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in accounting. Located in the suburb of Smithfield, Bryant is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a master’s in accounting from Bryant University
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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).