2022 Best Value Finance Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee For Those Making $30-$48k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Finance Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Finance & Financial Management is the 14th most popular major in the country with 57,893 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, finance and financial management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $51,578 and had an average of $26,517 in loans still to pay off.

Across Tennessee, there were 719 finance and financial management graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,225 and $30,683 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 31 finance and financial management graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Finance Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in finance and financial management. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great finance and financial management programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the finance and financial management program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Finance Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Finance Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Finance & Financial Management (Income $30-$48k) in Tennessee

#1

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$50,624 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$123,314 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Finance Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee For Those Making $30-$48k. Vanderbilt is a fairly large school located in Nashville, Tennessee that handed out 8 masters’s finance degrees in 2019-2020.

Vanderbilt also took the #1 spot in our “Best Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Vanderbilt are $50,624, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Finance & Financial Management at Vanderbilt

#2

Middle Tennessee State University

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

#2 in overall quality

$26,172 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Finance Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Middle Tennessee State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Murfreesboro, Tennessee is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s finance degrees to 21 students in 2019-2020.

Middle Tennessee State University also took the #2 spot in our “Best Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Middle Tennessee State University are $26,172, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Finance & Financial Management at Middle Tennessee State University

#3

Southern Adventist University

Collegedale, Tennessee

$11,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Adventist University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Finance Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee For Those Making $30-$48k. Located in Collegedale, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s finance students in 2019-2020.

Southern Adventist also took the #0 spot in our “Best Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Southern Adventist are $11,700, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Finance & Financial Management at Southern Adventist

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Finance & Financial Management (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Finance & Financial Management (Income $30-$48k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Dave Dugdale.

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