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2023 Best Value Accounting Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$28,565 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$62,466 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Accounting Doctor's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, 99,265 accounting students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #8 most popular in the country.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Accounting Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in the Southeast Region to see which doctor'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. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Accounting Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Accounting Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Best Southeast Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Accounting

Our analysis found Georgia State University to be the best value school for accounting students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in the Southeast Region . Georgia State is a very large public school located in the large city of Atlanta.

Georgia State graduate students pay an average of $24,790 in tuition and fees each year.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is a great value for accounting students working on their doctor’s degree. Louisiana State University is a very large public school located in the city of Baton Rouge.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Louisiana State University are $29,966 a year.

Full Accounting at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Report

#3

The University of Alabama

Tuscaloosa, AL

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at The University of Alabama helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value accounting schools in the Southeast Region . UA is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Tuscaloosa.

UA graduate students pay an average of $30,940 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Accounting at The University of Alabama Report

Best Accounting Colleges by State

Explore the best accounting schools for a specific state in the Southeast region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 2,330
Virginia 1,921
North Carolina 2,114
Florida 3,746
Tennessee 1,225
Kentucky 772
South Carolina 988
Louisiana 885
Arkansas 626
Alabama 1,557
Mississippi 1,081
West Virginia 520

Accounting is one of 21 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Business Administration & Management 416,590
Finance & Financial Management 57,778
General Business/Commerce 56,042
Marketing 52,916
Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods 43,382

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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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