2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Southwest Region

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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Accounting and Finance is the 289th most popular major in the country with 3,781 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southwest region, there were 184 accounting and finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 accounting and finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in accounting and finance. That schools that top this list have a program in accounting and finance in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Finance in the Southwest Region

1

Oklahoma Christian University
Edmond, Oklahoma

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Christian University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Edmond, Oklahoma, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s accounting and finance degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Accounting and Finance at Oklahoma Christian University

2

Howard Payne University
Brownwood, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Howard Payne University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Southwest Region list. Brownwood, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s accounting and finance degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Accounting and Finance at Howard Payne University

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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