2024 Best Accounting and Finance Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
5
Colleges in the Southwest Region
150
Master's Degrees
If you plan on getting your master's degree in
accounting and finance, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #193 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.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 5 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Accounting and Finance Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 150 master's degrees in accounting and finance during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Accounting and Finance School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of accounting and finance for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality accounting and 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 consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to accounting and finance students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other accounting and finance students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
- 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.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized accounting and finance related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for accounting and finance students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Accounting and Finance Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Accounting and Finance Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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