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2023 Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$15,696 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$55,627 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Accounting Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 750 degrees and certificates were awarded to accounting students who went to a Illinois college or university. This makes it the #15 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Illinois to see which graduate certificate 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.

2023 Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for accounting majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Accounting

Our analysis found University of St Francis to be the best value school for accounting students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Illinois. Located in the suburb of Joliet, University of Saint Francis is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

University of Saint Francis graduate students pay an average of $13,839 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, University of Saint Francis is ranked #3 for overall quality for accounting in Illinois.

Full Accounting at University of St Francis Report

The excellent graduate certificate programs at DeVry University - Illinois helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value accounting schools in Illinois. Located in the medium-sized city of Chicago, DeVry University - Illinois is a private for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at DeVry University - Illinois are $17,552 a year.

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Best Value Accounting Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Accounting Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 406
Ohio 470
Indiana 382
Wisconsin 146

One of 20 majors within the area of study, accounting has other similar majors worth exploring.

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 2 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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