2025 Best Accounting and Finance Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
4Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
62Bachelor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in accounting and finance, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #270 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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for accounting and finance students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 62 bachelor's degrees in accounting and finance to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Accounting and Finance School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The accounting and finance bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. 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 bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination 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 - The number of accounting and finance students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for accounting and finance students working on their bachelor's degree.
The accounting and finance school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Accounting and Finance Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Accounting and Finance in the Great Lakes Region
Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for accounting and finance students seeking a a bachelor's degree.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Accounting and Finance
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).