2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in the Plains States Region

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In 2021-2022, 93,982 accounting students received their degree, making the major the 8th most popular in the country. In , accounting graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $48,323 and had an average of $24,511 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 6,709 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,524 and $22,333 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,238 and $112,293 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in accounting. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in accounting.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Accounting in the Plains States Region

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University of Missouri - Columbia
Columbia, Missouri

#20 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Missouri - Columbia. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Accounting Major in the Plains States Region list. Mizzou is a public institution located in Columbia, Missouri. The school has a large population, and it awarded 3 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Accounting at Mizzou

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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