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2023 Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$16,977 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$55,627 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Accounting Graduate Certificate School for You

With 582 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, accounting is the #24 most popular major in Pennsylvania.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in Pennsylvania to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for accounting students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Colleges.

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

Our 2023 rankings named Clarion University of Pennsylvania the best value school in Pennsylvania for accounting students working on their graduate certificate. Clarion University is a small public school located in the remote town of Clarion.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Clarion University are $12,179 per year.

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#2

Villanova University

Villanova, PA

Out of the 4 schools in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Villanova University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Villanova is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Villanova.

Villanova graduate students pay an average of $21,199 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Villanova not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania list.

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#3

Saint Joseph's University

Philadelphia, PA

Out of the 4 schools in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Joseph’s University landed the # 3 spot on the list. St. Joe's is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Philadelphia.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at St. Joe’s are $18,144 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, St. Joe’s is ranked #5 for overall quality for accounting in Pennsylvania.

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#4

DeVry University - Pennsylvania

Ft. Washington, PA

Out of the 4 schools in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, DeVry University - Pennsylvania landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the large suburb of Ft. Washington, DeVry University - Pennsylvania is a private for-profit college with a fairly small student population.

DeVry University - Pennsylvania graduate students pay an average of $17,552 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Best Value Accounting Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Accounting Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 1,804
Maryland 311
New Jersey 577
District of Columbia 209
Delaware 72

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

Majors Similar to Accounting

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 4 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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