Accounting
Ranked in 2017, part of Best Business Schools
An accounting MBA readies students for the CPA exam and jobs in business accounting administration. Students gain skills to become accountants, financial managers, auditors and more. These are the top business schools for accounting.
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Save | Rank | School name | Tuition | Enrollment (full-time) | Average GMAT score (full-time) | Acceptance rate (full-time) | Full-time graduates employed at graduation | |||||
#1 | University of Texas—Austin (McCombs) Austin, TX | $34,296 per year (in-state, full-time); $50,296 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 521 | 699 | 28% | 77.5% | ||||||
#2 | University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA | $67,516 per year (full-time) | 1,708 | 730 | 19.6% | 85.8% | ||||||
#3 | University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL | $23,072 per year (in-state, full-time); $34,622 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 134 | 665 | 25.7% | 64.9% | ||||||
#4 | University of Chicago (Booth) Chicago, IL | $66,540 per year (full-time) | 1,185 | 726 | 23.6% | 84.9% | ||||||
#5 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI | $59,350 per year (in-state, full-time); $64,350 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 801 | 708 | 26.3% | 85.6% | ||||||
#6 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | $66,540 per year (full-time) | 833 | 737 | 6% | 62.8% | ||||||
#7 | Brigham Young University (Marriott) Provo, UT | $12,310 per year (LDS member, full-time); $24,620 per year (Non-LDS member, full-time) | 325 | 672 | 49.1% | 75.8% | ||||||
#8 | University of Southern California (Marshall) Los Angeles, CA | $55,474 per year (full-time) | 441 | 692 | 33.3% | 75.2% | ||||||
#9Tie | New York University (Stern) New York, NY | $66,588 per year (full-time) | 790 | 710 | 23.1% | 82.1% | ||||||
#9Tie | University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC | $40,015 per year (in-state, full-time); $56,138 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 574 | 700 | 36.4% | 75.1% | ||||||
#11 | Indiana University (Kelley) Bloomington, IN | $25,500 per year (in-state, full-time); $44,460 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 370 | 670 | 31.4% | 83.9% | ||||||
#12Tie | University of California—Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA | $56,009 per year (in-state, full-time); $57,560 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 502 | 717 | 12% | 68.6% | ||||||
#12Tie | University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) Notre Dame, IN | $50,326 per year (full-time) | 304 | 683 | 41% | 75.7% | ||||||
#14Tie | Ohio State University (Fisher) Columbus, OH | $30,120 per year (in-state, full-time); $50,568 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 206 | 671 | 31.7% | 80% | ||||||
#14Tie | Seattle University (Albers) Seattle, WA | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||
#16 | Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, CA | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||
#17 | Columbia University New York, NY | $68,792 per year (full-time) | 1,326 | 720 | 14.1% | 77.3% | ||||||
#18Tie | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) Cambridge, MA | $67,938 per year (full-time) | 809 | 724 | 11.7% | 81.2% | ||||||
#18Tie | Northwestern University (Kellogg) Evanston, IL | $66,462 per year (full-time) | 1,301 | 728 | 20.1% | 82.8% | ||||||
#18Tie | University of Florida (Hough) Gainesville, FL | $12,737 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,130 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 100 | 685 | 16% | 84.7% | ||||||
#21Tie | University of Washington (Foster) Seattle, WA | $31,335 per year (in-state, full-time); $46,155 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 253 | 691 | 23.9% | 85.3% | ||||||
#21Tie | University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison, WI | $15,894 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,164 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 196 | 669 | 26.3% | 76.3% | ||||||
#23 | Fairfield University (Dolan) Fairfield, CT | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||
#24Tie | Duke University (Fuqua) Durham, NC | $63,200 per year (full-time) | 896 | 695 | 22.1% | 83.1% | ||||||
#24Tie | Harvard University Boston, MA | $63,675 per year (full-time) | 1,871 | 729 | 10.7% | 79.3% |