2023 Best Value Accounting Doctor's Degree Schools
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Accounting Doctor's Degree School for You
In 2020-2021, 19,309 people earned a degree or certificate in accounting, making the major the #17 most popular in the United States.
It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.
To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Accounting Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. Our analysis looked at 12 schools in the United States to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for accounting students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
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2023 Best Value Accounting Doctor’s Degree Schools in the United States
The following schools top our list of the Best Value Accounting Doctor's Degree Colleges.
Top 10 Best Accounting Doctor's Degree Schools
Our analysis found Anderson University Indiana to be the best value school for accounting students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in the United States. Located in the city of Anderson, Anderson University Indiana is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Anderson University Indiana are $11,503 a year.
The excellent doctor’s degree programs at The University of Texas at Austin helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value accounting schools in the United States. UT Austin is a very large public school located in the city of Austin.
UT Austin graduate students pay an average of $22,944 in tuition and fees each year.
UT Austin excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Accounting Doctor’s Degree Schools list.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Capella University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Accounting Doctor’s Degree Schools list. Located in the large city of Minneapolis, Capella University is a private for-profit college with a very large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Capella University are $14,784 per year.
The excellent doctor’s degree programs at University of Pennsylvania helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value accounting schools in the United States. UPenn is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Philadelphia.
UPenn graduate students pay an average of $42,932 in tuition and fees each year.
UPenn excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 5% of all schools on our Best Accounting Doctor’s Degree Schools list.
Out of the 12 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Missouri - Columbia landed the # 5 spot on the list. Mizzou is a fairly large public school located in the city of Columbia.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Mizzou are $28,550 per year.
Washington State University landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree accounting programs. Wazzu is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Pullman.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Wazzu are $28,190 a year.
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Georgia State University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Accounting Doctor’s Degree Schools list. Georgia State is a fairly large public school located in the city of Atlanta.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Georgia State are $24,790 per year.
Michigan State University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Accounting Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking. Located in the city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public school with a very large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Michigan State are $38,638 per year.
Michigan State also claimed a spot on our Best Accounting Doctor’s Degree Schools list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for accounting students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #9 on the list. Louisiana State University is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Baton Rouge.
Louisiana State University graduate students pay an average of $29,966 in tuition and fees each year.
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The University of Alabama landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree accounting programs. UA is a fairly large public school located in the city of Tuscaloosa.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UA are $30,940 per year.
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Majors Related to Accounting
One of 20 majors within the area of study, accounting has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Related Majors
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Business Administration & Management | 131,555 |
| Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods | 31,701 |
| Human Resource Management | 12,117 |
| General Business/Commerce | 9,137 |
| Finance & Financial Management | 5,784 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 12 schools only.
- 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).
- Credit for the banner image above goes to Pixabay.
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