by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Finance is the 11th most popular major in the country with 51,779 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 12,955 finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in finance. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their finance program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
The finance school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the Southeast Region”.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the Southeast Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgia State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the Southeast Region. Georgia State is a large school located in Atlanta, Georgia that handed out 1 doctorate’s finance degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Alabama landed the #2 spot on the list. UA is a large public school situated in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It awarded 1 doctorate’s finance degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the Southeast Region list. Mississippi State, Mississippi is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s finance degrees to 90 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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