2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Finance & Financial Management in the Southeast Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 54,690 people earned their degree in finance & financial management, making the major the 14th most popular in the United States. In , finance & financial management graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $53,704 and had an average of $24,189 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 13,165 finance & financial management graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,168 and $23,214 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 finance & financial management graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,674 and $121,130 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in finance & financial management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their finance & financial management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree finance students.
Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Finance & Financial Management in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, this large public school awarded 236 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s finance students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Finance & Financial Management at Georgia State University
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Alabama landed the #2 spot on the list. Tuscaloosa, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s finance degrees to 5 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.
Read full report on Finance & Financial Management at UA
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Finance Major in the Southeast Region list. Mississippi State is a large public school situated in Mississippi State, Mississippi. It awarded 114 doctorate’s finance degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Finance & Financial Management at Mississippi State
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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).
- 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.
- 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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