2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in the New England Region
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Accounting is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 7th of all the majors we analyze. In 2021-2022, 68,501 degrees were awarded to students with this major.
Across the New England region, there were 4,995 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,470 and $116,265 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in accounting. That schools that top this list have a program in accounting in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree accounting students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Accounting in the New England Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Bentley University landed the #1 spot on the list. Waltham, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s accounting degrees to 4 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Accounting at Bentley University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in the New England Region list. Located in Storrs, Connecticut, this large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s accounting students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
Read full report on Accounting at University of Connecticut
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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
- *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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