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2023 Best Value Accounting Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

14 Colleges
$18,296 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$45,830 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Accounting School for You

With 586 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, accounting is the #12 most popular major in North Carolina.

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 North Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 14 schools in North Carolina to see which 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 Schools in North Carolina

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

Top 10 Best Accounting Schools

Our 2023 rankings named University of North Carolina at Charlotte the best value school in North Carolina for accounting students. UNC Charlotte is a very large public school located in the large city of Charlotte.

UNC Charlotte undergraduate students pay an average of $7,188 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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The excellent programs at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best accounting schools in North Carolina. UNC Chapel Hill is a very large public school located in the city of Chapel Hill.

UNC Chapel Hill undergraduate students pay an average of $9,028 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UNC Chapel Hill also made our Best Accounting Schools in North Carolina list, coming in at #2.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Appalachian State University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Accounting Schools in North Carolina list. Located in the town of Boone, Appalachian State is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Appalachian State are $7,410 a year.

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#4

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend East Carolina University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Accounting Schools in North Carolina list. Located in the small city of Greenville, ECU is a public college with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at ECU are $7,297 per year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of North Carolina at Wilmington. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Accounting Schools in North Carolina list. Located in the midsize city of Wilmington, UNCW is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UNCW are $7,238 per year.

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With a ranking of #6, University of North Carolina at Greensboro did quite well on this year’s best value schools for accounting students. UNC Greensboro is a large public school located in the large city of Greensboro.

UNC Greensboro undergraduate students pay an average of $7,468 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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With a ranking of #7, Western Carolina University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for accounting students. WCU is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Cullowhee.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at WCU are $4,367 per year.

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With a ranking of #8, North Carolina A & T State University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for accounting students. NC A&T is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Greensboro.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at NC A&T are $6,733 a year.

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#9

Gardner - Webb University

Boiling Springs, NC

Gardner - Webb University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value schools for accounting students. It came in at #9 on the list. Gardner - Webb is a small private not-for-profit school located in the town of Boiling Springs.

Gardner - Webb undergraduate students pay an average of $32,200 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#10

Wingate University

Wingate, NC
$40,170 Average Tuition & Fees

Wingate University ranked #10 on this year’s Best Value Accounting Schools in North Carolina list. Wingate is a small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Wingate.

Wingate undergraduate students pay an average of $40,170 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, Wingate is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Accounting Schools in North Carolina list.

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Best Value Accounting Colleges in the Southeast Region

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State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 559
Florida 982
Georgia 549
Tennessee 354
Kentucky 111
Louisiana 102
Alabama 395
South Carolina 192
Mississippi 306
Arkansas 81
West Virginia 83

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 14 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.

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