2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Great Lakes Region

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

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 293 accounting and finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 163 accounting and finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,182 and $43,142 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in accounting and finance. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in accounting and finance.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree accounting and finance students.

Top 5 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Accounting and Finance in the Great Lakes Region

1

DeVry University - Ohio
Columbus, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend DeVry University - Ohio. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Columbus, Ohio, this small private for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s accounting and finance students in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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 full report on Accounting and Finance at DeVry University - Ohio

2

DeVry University - Illinois
Naperville, Illinois

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend DeVry University - Illinois. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Great Lakes Region. DeVry University - Illinois is located in Naperville, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 142 masters’s accounting and finance degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Accounting and Finance at DeVry University - Illinois

3

Indiana University - Southeast
New Albany, Indiana

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana University - Southeast landed the #3 spot on the list. This small school is located in New Albany, Indiana, and it awarded 12 masters’s accounting and finance degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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 Indiana University - Southeast

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Ursuline College
Pepper Pike, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ursuline College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Accounting and Finance Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in Pepper Pike, Ohio, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified masters’s accounting and finance students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Ursuline College Accounting and Finance Report

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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