World's Best Universities
Accounting and Finance
Accounting students gain skills to become accountants, financial managers, auditors, and more. Students who major in finance can pursue many career paths as well, including commercial banking and corporate finance. These are the world's top universities for accounting and finance. See the methodology.
| Rank | School | Overall Score | Academic Reputation Score | Employer Reputation Score | Citations per Paper Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #40 |
Seoul National University (SNU)
South Korea |
73.8 | 65.7 | 84.5 | 71.5 |
| #25 |
Princeton University
United States |
79.7 | 74.4 | 84.0 | 88.5 |
| #38 | 75.0 | 69.2 | 83.8 | 69.1 | |
| #38 |
University of Auckland
New Zealand |
75.0 | 68.5 | 83.7 | 72.8 |
| #9 |
University of Chicago
United States |
87.7 | 90.0 | 83.4 | 93.8 |
| #11 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States |
84.5 | 85.6 | 83.2 | 83.8 |
| #6 |
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
United States |
89.3 | 92.5 | 83.0 | 98.8 |
| #17 |
HEC Paris
France |
82.5 | 82.7 | 82.2 | 82.4 |
| #45 |
University of Adelaide
Australia |
72.0 | 64.0 | 82.2 | 71.1 |
| #15 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
83.9 | 85.2 | 81.9 | 84.9 |
| #17 |
New York University (NYU)
United States |
82.5 | 82.6 | 80.7 | 89.5 |
| #42 |
McGill University
Canada |
72.1 | 63.7 | 80.4 | 81.1 |
| #27 |
Cornell University
United States |
78.3 | 75.0 | 79.7 | 89.4 |
| #49 |
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Hong Kong |
70.7 | 63.0 | 79.2 | 75.0 |
| #31 |
Northwestern University
United States |
77.3 | 74.6 | 78.5 | 86.0 |
| #30 |
Duke University
United States |
78.0 | 77.1 | 76.7 | 88.1 |
| #35 | 76.3 | 76.1 | 75.9 | 78.9 | |
| #37 |
University of Toronto
Canada |
75.9 | 75.6 | 75.7 | 77.7 |
| #41 |
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Netherlands |
73.7 | 71.1 | 75.6 | 79.3 |
| #47 |
University of Western Australia (UWA)
Australia |
70.9 | 67.3 | 75.6 | 70.2 |
| #48 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
70.8 | 68.7 | 75.4 | 63.2 |
| #42 |
University of Manchester
United Kingdom |
72.1 | 69.2 | 75.3 | 73.8 |
| #33 |
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
United States |
76.6 | 76.3 | 74.1 | 87.9 |
| #33 |
University of Michigan
United States |
76.6 | 76.6 | 74.0 | 86.5 |
| #46 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
71.2 | 68.6 | 71.8 | 82.2 |