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2023 Best Value Accounting Master's Degree Schools in South Carolina

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

6 Colleges
$13,212 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$59,048 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Accounting Master's Degree School for You

Accounting is the #16 most popular major in South Carolina with 192 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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 Master's Degree Schools in South Carolina ranking. Our analysis looked at 6 schools in South Carolina to see which master'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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Accounting Master’s Degree Schools in South Carolina

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for accounting majors pursuing a master's degree.

Best South Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Accounting

Our analysis found Charleston Southern University to be the best value school for accounting students who want to pursue a master’s degree in South Carolina. CSU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Charleston.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at CSU are $5,085 per year.

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#2

Clemson University

Clemson, SC

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Clemson University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Accounting Master’s Degree Schools in South Carolina list. Located in the large suburb of Clemson, Clemson is a public college with a very large student population.

Clemson graduate students pay an average of $11,796 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, Clemson is ranked #1 for overall quality for accounting in South Carolina.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of South Carolina - Columbia. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Accounting Master’s Degree Schools in South Carolina list. UofSC is a very large public school located in the midsize city of Columbia.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UofSC are $14,134 a year.

UofSC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Accounting Master’s Degree Schools in South Carolina list.

Read full report on Accounting at University of South Carolina - Columbia

#4

College of Charleston

Charleston, SC

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means College of Charleston is a great value for accounting students working on their master’s degree. C of C is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Charleston.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at C of C are $14,230 per year.

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Out of the 6 schools in South Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Coastal Carolina University landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the small city of Conway, Coastal Carolina University is a public school with a large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Coastal Carolina University are $10,764 per year.

Full Accounting at Coastal Carolina University Report

Strayer University - South Carolina came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Accounting Master’s Degree Schools in South Carolina ranking. Strayer University - South Carolina is a small private for-profit school located in the city of Greenville.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Strayer University - South Carolina are $15,135 a year.

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Best Value Accounting Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 559
Florida 982
Georgia 549
North Carolina 586
Tennessee 354
Kentucky 111
Louisiana 102
Alabama 395
Mississippi 306
Arkansas 81
West Virginia 83

Accounting is one of 20 different types of programs to choose from.

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 6 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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