The 50 colleges that score highest for Accounting on public federal data: selectivity, graduate earnings, program size, academic strength and graduate depth. It is a starting point for your research, not a judgment of quality.
50 colleges · each name links to its page, with sources · data snapshot October 2, 2026 · Updated October 2, 2026
How we rank programs · showing the top 50 of 50 core colleges ranked, those with enough graduates and earnings data · All top-programs lists
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| Rank | College | State | What we measured | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York University | NY | Median earnings $145,946 · 794 graduates last year · 9% of the school's degrees | |
| 2 | University of Pennsylvania | PA | Median earnings $172,875 (field-wide) · 15 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 3 | University of Notre Dame | IN | Median earnings $115,909 · 61 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 4 | Northeastern University | MA | Median earnings $113,620 · 986 graduates last year · 20% of the school's degrees | |
| 5 | The University of Texas at Austin | TX | Median earnings $105,143 · 143 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 6 | Emory University | GA | Median earnings $136,731 · 496 graduates last year · 19% of the school's degrees | |
| 7 | Indiana University-Bloomington | IN | Median earnings $105,583 · 2,407 graduates last year · 32% of the school's degrees | |
| 8 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MA | Median earnings $143,372 (college-wide) · 36 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 9 | Texas A&M University-College Station | TX | Median earnings $103,662 · 273 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 10 | Claremont McKenna College | CA | Median earnings $104,736 (college-wide) · 10 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 11 | Carnegie Mellon University | PA | Median earnings $160,783 · 185 graduates last year · 9% of the school's degrees | |
| 12 | Washington University in St Louis | MO | Median earnings $160,235 (field-wide) · 34 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 13 | University of California-Berkeley | CA | Median earnings $144,599 · 425 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 14 | University of Florida | FL | Median earnings $94,941 · 145 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 15 | Rice University | TX | Median earnings $89,718 (college-wide) · 67 graduates last year · 5% of the school's degrees | |
| 16 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | WI | Median earnings $101,390 · 123 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 17 | University of Southern California | CA | Median earnings $121,101 · 160 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 18 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | MI | Median earnings $144,654 · 608 graduates last year · 7% of the school's degrees | |
| 19 | Case Western Reserve University | OH | Median earnings $89,760 · 23 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 20 | Fairfield University | CT | Median earnings $110,586 · 101 graduates last year · 8% of the school's degrees | |
| 21 | Washington and Lee University | VA | Median earnings $118,946 · 48 graduates last year · 8% of the school's degrees | |
| 22 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | VA | Median earnings $139,103 · 389 graduates last year · 8% of the school's degrees | |
| 23 | Boston College | MA | Median earnings $126,461 · 127 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 24 | Villanova University | PA | Median earnings $120,207 · 105 graduates last year · 5% of the school's degrees | |
| 25 | George Washington University | DC | Median earnings $116,795 · 15 graduates last year · under 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 26 | Trinity University | TX | Median earnings $96,844 · 48 graduates last year · 7% of the school's degrees | |
| 27 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | NC | Median earnings $135,874 · 418 graduates last year · 6% of the school's degrees | |
| 28 | Binghamton University | NY | Median earnings $106,323 · 121 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 29 | Boston University | MA | Median earnings $108,412 · 713 graduates last year · 15% of the school's degrees | |
| 30 | University of Richmond | VA | Median earnings $112,202 · 31 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 31 | California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo | CA | Median earnings $110,902 · 748 graduates last year · 15% of the school's degrees | |
| 32 | Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | GA | Median earnings $106,155 · 392 graduates last year · 9% of the school's degrees | |
| 33 | CUNY Bernard M Baruch College | NY | Median earnings $90,104 · 513 graduates last year · 15% of the school's degrees | |
| 34 | Baylor University | TX | Median earnings $102,011 · 239 graduates last year · 6% of the school's degrees | |
| 35 | Georgetown University | DC | Median earnings $141,931 · 41 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 36 | Bucknell University | PA | Median earnings $130,990 · 70 graduates last year · 7% of the school's degrees | |
| 37 | University of Georgia | GA | Median earnings $93,260 · 161 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 38 | University of Miami | FL | Median earnings $102,344 · 59 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 39 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus | PA | Median earnings $88,192 · 219 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 40 | College of the Holy Cross | MA | Median earnings $114,088 · 21 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 41 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus | WA | Median earnings $88,393 · 136 graduates last year · 1% of the school's degrees | |
| 42 | Wake Forest University | NC | Median earnings $132,596 (field-wide) · 39 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 43 | Brandeis University | MA | Median earnings $108,405 · 110 graduates last year · 10% of the school's degrees | |
| 44 | University of Rochester | NY | Median earnings $102,583 · 184 graduates last year · 10% of the school's degrees | |
| 45 | University of Colorado Boulder | CO | Median earnings $86,441 · 1,147 graduates last year · 16% of the school's degrees | |
| 46 | Tulane University of Louisiana | LA | Median earnings $95,966 · 202 graduates last year · 8% of the school's degrees | |
| 47 | Lehigh University | PA | Median earnings $125,874 · 56 graduates last year · 4% of the school's degrees | |
| 48 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | IL | Median earnings $101,098 · 264 graduates last year · 3% of the school's degrees | |
| 49 | University of Connecticut | CT | Median earnings $106,959 · 104 graduates last year · 2% of the school's degrees | |
| 50 | Franklin and Marshall College | PA | Median earnings $101,895 · 78 graduates last year · 13% of the school's degrees |
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