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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #50 | 70.5 | 58.0 | 86.9 | 67.8 | |
| #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 |
| #24 |
Peking University
China |
79.8 | 71.2 | 93.9 | 66.8 |
| #31 |
Northwestern University
United States |
77.3 | 74.6 | 78.5 | 86.0 |
| #17 |
New York University (NYU)
United States |
82.5 | 82.6 | 80.7 | 89.5 |
| #8 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore |
88.8 | 84.2 | 98.4 | 72.9 |
| #32 |
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Singapore |
76.8 | 71.8 | 87.2 | 60.3 |
| #28 |
Monash University
Australia |
78.2 | 70.6 | 90.2 | 67.8 |
| #42 |
McGill University
Canada |
72.1 | 63.7 | 80.4 | 81.1 |
| #2 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
94.2 | 98.7 | 89.1 | 92.5 |
| #5 |
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
United Kingdom |
90.0 | 91.1 | 92.8 | 73.6 |
| #3 |
London Business School
United Kingdom |
93.1 | 94.9 | 91.5 | 90.4 |
| #50 |
Lancaster University
United Kingdom |
70.5 | 72.8 | 69.4 | 63.2 |
| #48 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
70.8 | 68.7 | 75.4 | 63.2 |
| #22 | 80.8 | 74.0 | 90.8 | 75.0 | |
| #17 |
HEC Paris
France |
82.5 | 82.7 | 82.2 | 82.4 |
| #1 |
Harvard University
United States |
99.8 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 97.8 |
| #42 |
Fudan University
China |
72.1 | 62.7 | 89.1 | 50.8 |
| #38 | 75.0 | 69.2 | 83.8 | 69.1 | |
| #41 |
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Netherlands |
73.7 | 71.1 | 75.6 | 79.3 |
| #30 |
Duke University
United States |
78.0 | 77.1 | 76.7 | 88.1 |
| #27 |
Cornell University
United States |
78.3 | 75.0 | 79.7 | 89.4 |
| #14 |
Columbia University
United States |
84.2 | 80.5 | 87.7 | 88.9 |
| #49 |
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Hong Kong |
70.7 | 63.0 | 79.2 | 75.0 |