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2023 Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in Arizona

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$13,460 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$55,627 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Accounting Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 637 degrees and certificates were awarded to accounting students who went to a Arizona college or university. This makes it the #13 most popular major in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

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 Arizona ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Arizona 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.

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 Arizona

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

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

#1

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

Our 2023 rankings named University of Arizona the best value school in Arizona for accounting students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the large city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public college with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at University of Arizona are $13,460 per year.

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

Read full report on Accounting at University of Arizona

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Phoenix - Arizona. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in Arizona list. Located in the large city of Tempe, UOPX - Arizona is a private for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UOPX - Arizona are $16,153 per year.

UOPX - Arizona also took the #2 spot in our Best Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in Arizona rankings.

Full Accounting at University of Phoenix - Arizona Report

Best Value Accounting Colleges in the Southwest Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 2,271
Oklahoma 231
New Mexico 61

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 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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