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By: Uchenna Ani-okoye

Top Accounting Schools in America

It can be a very challenging task for you to choose the right school, and your decision will depend greatly on attribute that you find the most important, such as acceptance rate, tuition and graduate placement. When looking for a university to attend college ranking publications come most in handy. There are several types of publications such as Bloomberg, News & World Report and Business Week. Each will have their own criteria for ranking the schools. Bloomberg for example emphasises student data, while peer assessment is the main focus for News & World Report. In order to help get you off the market, some of the best accounting schools in America today are:

1) University of Texas
2) University of Pennsylvania
3) University of Chicago
4-tied) University of Illinois
4-tied) University of Michigan

News & World Report looks at the top accounting schools as a subset for the best business schools around. The accounting program ranking may be somewhat different form the ranking for the business schools.

While the listed schools above are the top ranked as determine by News & World Report, the rankings for the other publications may be slightly different depending on the criteria that they use to indicate whether or not a school is good. When deciding on which accounting school to attend, it may be in your best interested to look at the rankings from all the different publications just to ensure that you choose the right institute.