Ranking of Accounting Doctoral Programs Based on Student
Ratings
Prof. Kam Chan
Prof. Barbara Farrell
Prof. Patricia Healy
with
Prof. Annie Wong (Western CT State U)
The objectives of this study are to rank
the US accounting doctoral programs in
terms of their graduates' student ratings
and to examine the factors associated
with the rankings.
This study is supported by a 2017 Lubin
summer research grant.
AACSB business schools employing
accounting Ph.D. graduates in a typical year.
Mission designation % of schools
Teaching as top priority 28
Research as top priority 32
Equal priority for teaching
and research 40
We find that the doctoral program ranking
based on student ratings is not correlated
with previous ranking based on research
output.
We find that graduates from doctoral
programs with special teaching training
have higher student ratings.
