2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Finance & Financial Management in Tennessee

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Master’s in Tennessee” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Finance & Financial Management is the 14th most popular major in the country with 57,893 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 Tennessee, there were 719 finance and financial management graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,225 and $30,683 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 31 finance and financial management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Finance Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in finance and financial management. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality finance and financial management programs that also have a lower cost than 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Finance Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Finance Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Finance Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Finance & Financial Management in Tennessee

#1

Middle Tennessee State University

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

#2 in overall quality

$26,172 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Finance Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Middle Tennessee State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Murfreesboro, Tennessee is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s finance degrees to 21 students in 2019-2020.

Middle Tennessee State University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Middle Tennessee State University are $26,172, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Finance & Financial Management at Middle Tennessee State University

#2

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$50,624 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$123,314 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Finance Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee. Vanderbilt University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Nashville, Tennessee. It awarded 8 masters’s finance degrees in 2019-2020.

Vanderbilt also took the #1 spot in our “Best Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Vanderbilt are $50,624, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Finance & Financial Management at Vanderbilt University

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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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Dave Dugdale.

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