2024 Best Accounting Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
95Colleges in the Southeast Region
3,930Master's Degrees
If you pursue a master's degree in accounting, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #7 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 95 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Accounting Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 3,930 master's degrees in accounting during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Accounting School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of accounting for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality accounting program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different 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 much a school focuses on accounting students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other accounting students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
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 related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for accounting students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Accounting Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Accounting in the Southeast Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in accounting. Only those schools that rank in the top 15% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
14 Top Southeast Region Schools for a Master's in Accounting
Vanderbilt University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in accounting. Located in the city of Nashville, Vanderbilt is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in accounting from Vanderbilt University
Gain the competitive edge required to advance in today's financial environments with this online graduate degree from Southern New Hampshire University.
These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Accounting Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region award.
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).