2023 Best Accounting Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Maine
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$57,871
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Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Accounting for a Master’s” ranking.
In 2020-2021, 99,265 accounting students received their degree, making the major the 8th most popular in the country. In 2019-2020, accounting graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $47,712 and had an average of $26,539 in loans still to pay off.
Across Maine, there were 203 accounting graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,530 and $34,202 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality accounting programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the accounting program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Accounting for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for maine master’s degree vets studying accounting.
Top 1 Best Accounting Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Maine
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Maine for Accounting for a Master’s list. Saint Joseph’s Maine is a small school located in Standish, Maine that handed out 23 masters’s accounting degrees in 2020-2021.
Saint Joseph’s Maine also made our “Best Accounting Master’s Degree Schools in Maine” list, coming in at #1.Our most recent data shows that 15 of the 1,967 students enrolled at Saint Joseph’s Maine were GI Bill® students, of which 8 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,527. During this same period, 4 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Saint Joseph’s Maine offers credit for military training for eligible students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Saint Joseph’s Maine]](/colleges/saint-josephs-college-of-maine/student-life/veterans/)
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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
- *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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