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2023 Best Value Finance & Financial Management Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

31 Colleges
$20,170 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$71,194 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Finance & Financial Management Master's Degree School for You

Finance & Financial Management is the #45 most popular major in the country with 5,784 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. 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 Finance & Financial Management Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 31 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for finance students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Finance & Financial Management Master's Degree Colleges.

Top 10 Best Finance & Financial Management Master's Degree Schools

Our 2023 rankings named Northern Illinois University the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for finance and financial management students working on their master’s degree. NIU is a fairly large public school located in the small suburb of Dekalb.

NIU graduate students pay an average of $11,390 in tuition and fees each year.

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#2

Xavier University

Cincinnati, OH

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Xavier University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Xavier is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Cincinnati.

Xavier graduate students pay an average of $12,076 in tuition and fees each year.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at Concordia University, Wisconsin helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value finance and financial management schools in the Great Lakes Region . Located in the suburb of Mequon, Concordia University, Wisconsin is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

Concordia University, Wisconsin graduate students pay an average of $11,760 in tuition and fees each year.

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Out of the 31 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Indiana Wesleyan University - National & Global landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the rural area of Marion, IWU is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

IWU graduate students pay an average of $10,440 in tuition and fees each year.

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#5

Concordia University, Chicago

River Forest, IL

Out of the 31 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Concordia University, Chicago landed the # 5 spot on the list. Concordia University, Chicago is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of River Forest.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Concordia University, Chicago are $9,378 per year.

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#6

Walsh College

Troy, MI

With a ranking of #6, Walsh College did quite well on this year’s best value schools for finance and financial management students working on their master’s degree. Walsh is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Troy.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Walsh are $16,926 per year.

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#7

Lewis University

Romeoville, IL

Lewis University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Lewis is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Romeoville.

Lewis graduate students pay an average of $14,960 in tuition and fees each year.

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University of Wisconsin - Madison ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the city of Madison, UW - Madison is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UW - Madison are $25,501 a year.

In addition to its great value ranking, UW - Madison is in the top 5% of all schools on our Best Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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#9

Cleary University

Howell, MI

With a ranking of #9, Cleary University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for finance and financial management students working on their master’s degree. Located in the suburb of Howell, Cleary College is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Cleary College are $16,538 a year.

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#10

University of Dayton

Dayton, OH

University of Dayton ranked #10 on this year’s Best Value Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the midsize city of Dayton, UDayton is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UDayton are $18,140 per year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, UDayton also is in the top 15% of our Best Finance & Financial Management Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking.

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Best Finance & Financial Management Colleges by State

Explore the best finance and financial management colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 102
Illinois 244
Ohio 307
Indiana 78
Wisconsin 47

Finance & Financial Management 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
Accounting 19,309
Human Resource Management 12,117
General Business/Commerce 9,137

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 25 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 Dave Dugdale.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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