I disagree. Wake has 7,600 students so if 4800 are undergrads I don’t think its reasonable to describe the rest as being part of “a few grad programs.” More than 1 of 3 students there is a grad student.
I fear this thread is moving way off of the OP’s question.
Hendrix College offers a Masters in Accounting.
Bentley is second-to-none in accounting, but please realize that Trinity is a much different culture being in San Antonio than a East Coast school. San Antonio is nice with the riverwalk and stuff, but it is still Texas. It’s nice, but I wouldn’t study there for accounting and the culture is just weird. Students get a great education and are smart, but ultimately in business they have a limited market to get jobs from.
It’s pretty amazing that Texas, the second most populated state in the nation, which grew at a far faster rate than every state in the Northeast offers a limited market. By the way, San Antonio is the 7th most populated city in the nation. Boston is the 11th largest metro area in the US. Dallas and Houston are the 4th and 5th respectively. To suggest that the market for accountants in Texas is somehow more limited is ludicrous.
The culture of San Antonio is different than Boston. It’s not weird, it’s just different.
States can be populated and still lag behind other states in terms of business activity. The reality is that the economic cores of this country sit on the coasts. I’m just saying that if you want to see the biggest clients, and the full-range of services that a Big Four firm provides, you’ll find it in the Northeast before you find it anywhere else. I’ll just offer something I learned: On one of my visits to Trinity, the student that was hosting me said that the one thing he didn’t like about the school was that it had a limited job market to Texas. He wanted to work in the Northeast, but couldn’t because Trinity wasn’t as relevant. Location of the school has something to do with where you land a job, and I just thought I’d note that considering most of the other schools the OP listed were in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic area.
Big Four recruiting is very egalitarian. They go to where the program is good and where the kids they hire are likely to stay for a while. They tend to recruit at the same places every year. Northeast schools generally have an edge only because more recruiting is done here.