2023 Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Accounting Graduate Certificate 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.
The Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 18 schools in the Southeast Region to see which graduate certificate 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.
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2023 Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for accounting majors pursuing a graduate certificate.
Top 10 Best Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools
Our 2023 rankings named Furman University the best value school in the Southeast Region for accounting students working on their graduate certificate. Furman is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Greenville.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Furman are $7,513 per year.
In addition to its great value ranking, Furman is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American Public University System. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list. Located in the town of Charles Town, American Military University is a private for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at American Military University are $7,050 per year.
American Military University also claimed a spot on our Best Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Gardner - Webb University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list. Gardner - Webb is a small private not-for-profit school located in the distant town of Boiling Springs.
Gardner - Webb graduate students pay an average of $10,130 in tuition and fees each year.
The excellent graduate certificate programs at Bellarmine University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value accounting schools in the Southeast Region . Bellarmine U is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Louisville.
Bellarmine U graduate students pay an average of $13,652 in tuition and fees each year.
A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Mississippi College is a great value for accounting students working on their graduate certificate. MC is a small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Clinton.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at MC are $12,796 per year.
Lipscomb University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Lipscomb is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Nashville.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Lipscomb are $17,100 a year.
Lipscomb also claimed a spot on our Best Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.
Belhaven University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list. Belhaven is a small private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Jackson.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Belhaven are $10,980 per year.
DeVry University - Georgia came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Located in the large suburb of Decatur, DeVry University - Georgia is a private for-profit school with a fairly small student population.
DeVry University - Georgia graduate students pay an average of $17,552 in tuition and fees each year.
Auburn University ranked #9 on this year’s Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list. Located in the small city of Auburn, Auburn is a public school with a fairly large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Auburn are $31,986 a year.
As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Auburn also is in the top 5% of our Best Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region ranking.
University of Louisiana at Monroe came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Accounting Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. ULM is a moderately-sized public school located in the small city of Monroe.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at ULM are $21,877 a year.
Best Accounting Colleges by State
Explore the best accounting colleges 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 |
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Majors Related to Accounting
Accounting is one of 21 different types of programs to choose from.
Most Popular Related Majors
| 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 18 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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