2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Pennsylvania

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Accounting is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 8th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 99,265 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2019-2020, accounting graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $47,712 and had an average of $26,539 in loans still to pay off.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 3,773 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,503 and $27,735 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,028 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Pennsylvania” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in accounting. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in accounting.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Pennsylvania”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Accounting in Pennsylvania

1

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#1 overall quality in Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Pennsylvania. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Pennsylvania list. University of Pennsylvania is a private not-for-profit institution located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.

Read more about Accounting at UPenn

2

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#2 overall quality in Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Carnegie Mellon University landed the #2 spot on the list. Carnegie Mellon is a private not-for-profit institution located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. 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 Carnegie Mellon

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Accounting in the Middle Atlantic 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

• *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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