by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Delaware” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
With 99,265 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, accounting is the 8th most popular major in the United States. 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 Delaware, there were 306 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,182 and $29,649 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 71 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,559 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Delaware” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in accounting. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in accounting.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Delaware” list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Delaware”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Delaware that were part of this year’s ranking, Strayer University - Delaware landed the #1 spot on the list. Strayer University - Delaware is a private for-profit institution located in Newark, Delaware. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wilmington University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Delaware list. Wilmington University is a fairly large school located in New Castle, Delaware that handed out 44 masters’s accounting degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting Major in Delaware that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Delaware landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Delaware is a large public school situated in Newark, Delaware. It awarded 25 masters’s accounting degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.
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