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2023 Best Value Accounting Schools in Delaware

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$13,432 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$48,182 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Accounting School for You

In 2020-2021, 72 degrees and certificates were awarded to accounting students who went to a Delaware college or university. This makes it the #11 most popular major in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Accounting Schools in Delaware to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in Delaware to see which ones offered the best value 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 Schools in Delaware

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

Best Delaware Schools for Affordable Quality in Accounting

#1

Wilmington University

New Castle, DE
$11,760 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Wilmington University to be the best value school for accounting students who want to pursue a degree in Delaware. Located in the large suburb of New Castle, Wilmington University is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

Wilmington University undergraduate students pay an average of $11,760 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Wilmington University also took the #2 spot in our Best Accounting Schools in Delaware rankings.

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$15,020 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Delaware is a great value for accounting students. UD is a very large public school located in the suburb of Newark.

UD undergraduate students pay an average of $15,020 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, UD is ranked #1 for overall quality for accounting in Delaware.

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#3

Goldey - Beacom College

Wilmington, DE
$12,750 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Goldey - Beacom College helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best accounting schools in Delaware. Located in the large suburb of Wilmington, Goldey - Beacom College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Goldey - Beacom College are $12,750 per year.

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$13,515 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Strayer University - Delaware is a great value for accounting students. Located in the small city of Newark, Strayer University - Delaware is a private for-profit school with a fairly small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Strayer University - Delaware are $13,515 a year.

Strayer University - Delaware also made our Best Accounting Schools in Delaware list, coming in at #4.

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Best Value Accounting Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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State Degrees Awarded
New York 1,804
Pennsylvania 582
Maryland 311
New Jersey 577
District of Columbia 209

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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