The decision to study finance opens doors to a wide range of professional opportunities not only in the United States but worldwide. Every organization needs financial assistance regardless their industry. Graduate students from finance programs have the skills valuable to manage the investments and financing from different types of organizations. In the United States, the structure of finance departments vary from institution to institution, some study programs belong to business schools and faculties, while other programs are hosted by finance related institutions which demand high entrance standards.

We have collected the names of the best departments in finance and accounting across the United States in order to make simpler your decision about your further location of studies. The following list is organized alphabetically and compiles rankings such as QS Rankings and US News Ranking.

Department of Finance, Bentley University

Waltham, Massachusetts

Department of Finance, Boston College

Boston, Massachusetts

Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Department of Finance and Economics, Columbia University

New York City, New York

Johnson Graduate School of Management , Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

Zicklin School of Business, CUNY Bernard M Baruch College

New York City, New York

Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College

Hanover , New Hampshire

Fuqua School of Business , Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

Harvard  Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Department of Finance, Lehigh University

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology  MIT

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Finance Department, Stern, New York University

New York City, New York

Finance Department, Northwestern University

Chicago, Illinois

Department of Economics, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey

Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Stanford, California

Department of Finance, University of California - Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

Department of Finance, University of California, Berkeley (UCB)

Berkeley, California

Department of Finance, University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

Department of Finance, University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, United States

Finance Department, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Yale School of Management, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut