2023 Best Accounting and Finance Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Pennsylvania

With all of the options veterans have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Accounting and Finance for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Accounting and Finance is the 289th most popular major in the country with 3,648 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 283 accounting and finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 276 accounting and finance graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,741 and $27,572 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Accounting and Finance for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in accounting and finance. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality accounting and finance programs as well as strong veteran support.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the accounting and finance program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Accounting and Finance for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Accounting and Finance for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree vets studying accounting and finance.

Top 2 Best Accounting and Finance Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Pennsylvania

1

Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Drexel University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Accounting and Finance for a Bachelor’s. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 190 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s accounting and finance students in 2020-2021.

Drexel also made our “Best Accounting and Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #1.According to our most recent data, Drexel University supports 23,589 students, and 2 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 0 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $0. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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 veteran student life at Drexel University]](/colleges/drexel-university/student-life/veterans/)

2

Bucknell University
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

31 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$23,865 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bucknell University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Pennsylvania for Accounting and Finance for a Bachelor’s. This small school is located in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 79 bachelors’s accounting and finance degrees in 2020-2021.

Bucknell not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Accounting and Finance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list.Of the 3,726 students enrolled at Bucknell University, 31 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 4 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $23,865. On top of their other funding sources, 14 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full Bucknell University Veteran Student Life Report

• Best Accounting and Finance Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Accounting and Finance Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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).
• Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
• 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.
• **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
• 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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