2022 Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Accounting and Business/Management is the 323rd most popular major in the country with 1,600 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 152 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in accounting and business/management. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent accounting and business/management programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the accounting and business/management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management (Income $0-$30k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Hope College

Holland, Michigan

#1 in overall quality

$16,113 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hope College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Holland, Michigan, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 9 degrees to qualified bachelors’s accounting and business/management students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Hope, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Hope College is $16,113 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Accounting and Business/Management students whose families make $0-$30k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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#2

Maranatha Baptist University

Watertown, Wisconsin

#2 in overall quality

$16,361 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Maranatha Baptist University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. MBU is a small school located in Watertown, Wisconsin that handed out 1 bachelors’s accounting and business/management degrees in 2019-2020.

MBU also made our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $16,361 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree accounting and business/management students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Maranatha Baptist University.

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#3

Bryant & Stratton College - Parma

Parma, Ohio

#4 in overall quality

$15,422 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bryant & Stratton College - Parma. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Parma, Ohio, this small private for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s accounting and business/management students in 2019-2020.

Bryant & Stratton College - Parma also took the #4 spot in our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Bryant & Stratton College - Parma is $15,422 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Accounting and Business/Management students whose families make $0-$30k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 100%.

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#4

Bryant & Stratton College - Wauwatosa

Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

#5 in overall quality

$13,951 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bryant & Stratton College - Wauwatosa. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Bryant & Stratton College - Wauwatosa is a small school located in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin that handed out 1 bachelors’s accounting and business/management degrees in 2019-2020.

Bryant & Stratton College - Wauwatosa did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Bryant & Stratton College - Wauwatosa is $13,951 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Accounting and Business/Management students whose families make $0-$30k.

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• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management (Income $0-$30k)

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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