2024 Best Finance & Financial Management Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
If you plan on getting your master's degree in
finance & financial management, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #42 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 12 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for finance & financial management students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 316 master's degrees in finance & financial management to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Finance & Financial Management School for Your Master's Degree
The finance master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality finance program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on finance & financial management students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of finance & financial management students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Student Debt - How much debt finance & financial management students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized finance & financial management related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for finance & financial management students working on their master's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Finance & Financial Management Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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