2022 Best Value Accounting Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Accounting Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Accounting is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 8th of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 101,094 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, accounting graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $44,557 and had an average of $26,381 in loans still to pay off.

Across Nebraska, there were 471 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,771 and $28,158 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 72 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,407 and $40,167 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Accounting Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in accounting. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality accounting programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the accounting program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Accounting Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Accounting Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting in Nebraska

#1

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Lincoln, Nebraska

#1 in overall quality

$19,513 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$54,880 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Accounting Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska. This large school is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and it awarded 45 masters’s accounting degrees in 2019-2020.

UNL not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Accounting Master’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UNL are $19,513.

Read more about Accounting at University of Nebraska - Lincoln

#2

University of Nebraska at Omaha

Omaha, Nebraska

#3 in overall quality

$16,374 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$56,415 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Accounting Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska at Omaha landed the #2 spot on the list. UNOMAHA is a fairly large public school situated in Omaha, Nebraska. It awarded 12 masters’s accounting degrees in 2019-2020.

UNOMAHA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Accounting Master’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Nebraska at Omaha are $16,374.

Read more about Accounting at University of Nebraska at Omaha

#3

Bellevue University

Bellevue, Nebraska

#2 in overall quality

$11,385 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bellevue University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Accounting Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska. Bellevue University is a fairly large school located in Bellevue, Nebraska that handed out 11 masters’s accounting degrees in 2019-2020.

Bellevue University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Accounting Master’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Bellevue University are $11,385, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Accounting at Bellevue University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting in the Plains States Region
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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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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