least expensive AACSB accredited doctorate in US or internationally?

[life_learner]

For pure teaching position, it seems the pay for non AACSB is around 80k while the pay for AACSB is over 100k. Therefore, one can recover the difference in tuition between University of Cumberlands and Marshall in just about a year. Of course, there are always exceptions.

I wouldn't interpret this statistic in the same way. All the best schools are AACSB, so all the highest paid professors would have AACSB degrees, heavily skewing the result. This would imply that pure monetary ROI is far less than the 20k difference. However, it's definitely possible that an AACSB degree will give more options for where to teach, which is an important factor to consider.

While there are always exceptions, it's very difficult for a PhD from a non AACSB to land a job at a AACSB business school. On the other hand, we don't have statistics for PhD from AACSB to teach at non AACSB. It seems the job market for business schools are very strong. For someone that can get into a AACSB program and can figure out ways to get the additional 30k funding, the odds are pretty good in getting the investment back in a couple of years. There are similar discussion topics on degreeinfo.com and it's a good idea for anyone making that decision to take a look at that.