2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

Across the Southeast region, there were 272 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 36 accounting and business/management graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in accounting and business/management. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great accounting and business/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 accounting and business/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 Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

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

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Business/Management (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia

#1 in overall quality

$44,676 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Emory University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Emory is a private not-for-profit institution located in Atlanta, Georgia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 22 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southeast region master’s degree accounting and business/management students whose families make $0-$30k list, Emory has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Emory are $44,676, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Accounting and Business/Management at Emory

#2

Mississippi College

Clinton, Mississippi

#2 in overall quality

$12,322 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi College landed the #2 spot on the list. Clinton, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s accounting and business/management degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

MC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Master’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 Mississippi College are $12,322.

Full MC Accounting and Business/Management Report

#3

South College

Knoxville, Tennessee

$27,550 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Accounting and Business/Management Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k. South College is located in Knoxville, Tennessee and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 masters’s accounting and business/management degrees to qualified students.

South College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Accounting and Business/Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at South College are $27,550, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Accounting and Business/Management at South College

• Best Value Master’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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