2025 Best Accounting and Finance Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
9Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
538Accounting and Finance Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in accounting and finance, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #289 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 9 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Accounting and Finance Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 538 degrees in accounting and finance annually.
The accounting and finance program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Accounting and Finance rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for accounting and finance schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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Best Schools for Accounting and Finance in the Middle Atlantic Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the accounting and finance degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools in Accounting and Finance
It is hard to beat Drexel University if you wish to pursue a degree in accounting and finance. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, Drexel is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #115 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Drexel is a great university overall.
There were roughly 229 accounting and finance students who graduated with this degree at Drexel in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in accounting and finance has to check out Fordham University. Located in the large city of Bronx, Fordham U is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #67 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Fordham U is a great university overall.
There were about 45 accounting and finance students who graduated with this degree at Fordham U in the most recent year we have data available.
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Bucknell University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in accounting and finance. Located in the distant town of Lewisburg, Bucknell is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #158 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Bucknell is a great university overall.
There were roughly 74 accounting and finance students who graduated with this degree at Bucknell in the most recent data year.
Rider University is a great option for students pursuing a degree in accounting and finance. Rider is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Lawrenceville. This university ranks 11th out of 45 schools for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were roughly 4 accounting and finance students who graduated with this degree at Rider in the most recent year we have data available.
UMGC is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Adelphi. A Best Colleges rank of #179 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UMGC is a great university overall.
There were about 93 accounting and finance students who graduated with this degree at UMGC in the most recent data year.
Located in the remote town of Potsdam, Clarkson is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 29th out of 136 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 10 accounting and finance students who graduated with this degree at Clarkson in the most recent data year.
Located in the large suburb of New Castle, Wilmington University is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 3 colleges for overall quality in the state of Delaware.
There were about 23 accounting and finance students who graduated with this degree at Wilmington University in the most recent year we have data available.
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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).
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The accounting and finance program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Accounting and Finance rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for accounting and finance schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
