2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Finance & Financial Management in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Finance Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 57,893 people earned their degree in finance and financial management, making the major the 14th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, finance and financial management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $51,578 and had an average of $26,517 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 13,174 finance and financial management graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,982 and $25,351 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 finance and financial management graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,978 and $116,300 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great finance and financial management programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the finance and financial management program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Finance Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Finance Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Finance & Financial Management in the Southeast Region

#1

Georgia State University

Atlanta, Georgia

#1 in overall quality

$24,790 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Finance Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region list. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, this large public school handed out 2 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s finance students in 2019-2020.

Georgia State also made our “Best Finance & Financial Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Georgia State are $24,790.

Read full report on Finance & Financial Management at Georgia State University

#2

The University of Alabama

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$30,940 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Alabama. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Finance Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region list. Tuscaloosa, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s finance degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

UA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Finance & Financial Management Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UA are $30,940.

Full The University of Alabama Finance & Financial Management Report

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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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