Accounting

A program that prepares individuals to practice the profession of accounting and to perform related business functions. Includes instruction in accounting principles and theory, financial accounting, managerial accounting, cost accounting, budget control, tax accounting, legal aspects of accounting, auditing, reporting procedures, statement analysis, planning and consulting, business information systems, accounting research methods, professional standards and ethics, and applications to specific for-profit, public, and non-profit organizations.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 1367 institutions across the United States, with a total of 188014 degrees awarded annually.

Certificates Below Bachelor's

2,721

certificates awarded

Associate Degrees

3,837

degrees awarded

Bachelor's Degrees

40,317

degrees awarded

Post-Baccalaureate Certificates

516

certificates awarded

Master's Degrees

14,622

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

degrees awarded

Other Awards

125,936

awards given

Top Schools for Accounting

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	Western Governors University Salt Lake City, UT	5,019
2	Southern New Hampshire University Manchester, NH	4,611
3	CUNY Bernard M Baruch College New York, NY	2,283
4	University of Phoenix-Arizona Phoenix, AZ	1,797
5	University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO	1,533
6	Liberty University Lynchburg, VA	1,463
7	Dallas College Dallas, TX	1,417
8	Texas A & M University-College Station College Station, TX	1,227
9	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX	1,149
10	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA	1,092
11	Grand Canyon University Phoenix, AZ	1,092
12	The University of Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX	1,080
13	Colorado Technical University-Colorado Springs Colorado Springs, CO	1,074
14	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	1,056
15	Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL	1,020
16	CUNY Queens College Queens, NY	993
17	Utah Valley University Orem, UT	963
18	Purdue University Global West Lafayette, IN	957
19	Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX	954
20	University of South Florida Tampa, FL	948
21	University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA	945
22	University of Houston-Downtown Houston, TX	933
23	University of Georgia Athens, GA	924
24	The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL	918
25	California State University-Northridge Northridge, CA	903
26	Colorado State University Global Aurora, CO	900
27	Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH	897
28	University of Central Florida Orlando, FL	870
29	Brigham Young University Provo, UT	870
30	University of Mississippi University, MS	867
31	University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus Norman, OK	861
32	Baylor University Waco, TX	855
33	Florida International University Miami, FL	855
34	Eastern Gateway Community College Steubenville, OH	849
35	University of North Texas Denton, TX	840
36	Rutgers University-Newark Newark, NJ	825
37	University of Houston Houston, TX	768
38	University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD	744
39	University of Nevada-Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV	723
40	The University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, TX	708
41	University of Connecticut Storrs, CT	702
42	Lone Star College System The Woodlands, TX	702
43	The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Edinburg, TX	699
44	Georgia State University Atlanta, GA	684
45	Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ	681
46	Auburn University Auburn, AL	678
47	University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR	675
48	University of Kansas Lawrence, KS	661
49	DePaul University Chicago, IL	660
50	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	657
51	Clemson University Clemson, SC	651
52	Ashford University San Diego, CA	651
53	University of Florida Gainesville, FL	639
54	University of Maryland Global Campus Adelphi, MD	639
55	University of South Carolina-Columbia Columbia, SC	633
56	University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL	633
57	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	632
58	Kennesaw State University Kennesaw, GA	630
59	CUNY Brooklyn College Brooklyn, NY	630
60	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA	627
61	Binghamton University Vestal, NY	624
62	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville Knoxville, TN	612
63	Miami University-Oxford Oxford, OH	603
64	University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, IL	600
65	Illinois State University Normal, IL	600
66	Portland State University Portland, OR	591
67	Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI	585
68	Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA	578
69	The University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, TX	567
70	Texas State University San Marcos, TX	567
71	University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT	564
72	Austin Community College District Austin, TX	559
73	Texas Christian University Fort Worth, TX	555
74	Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi Corpus Christi, TX	552
75	Washington State University Pullman, WA	549
76	University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE	549
77	Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI	537
78	Oklahoma State University-Main Campus Stillwater, OK	537
79	Southern Utah University Cedar City, UT	534
80	Fairfield University Fairfield, CT	528
81	George Mason University Fairfax, VA	525
82	University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Cincinnati, OH	525
83	University at Albany Albany, NY	516
84	University of Iowa Iowa City, IA	513
85	DeVry University-Illinois Lisle, IL	504
86	The University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, TX	504
87	Wayne State University Detroit, MI	498
88	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	493
89	CUNY Lehman College Bronx, NY	489
90	Universidad Ana G. Mendez-Gurabo Campus Gurabo, PR	483
91	Montclair State University Montclair, NJ	477
92	University of Kentucky Lexington, KY	477
93	University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY	477
94	Iowa State University Ames, IA	471
95	St. John's University-New York Queens, NY	468
96	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Baton Rouge, LA	456
97	Kansas State University Manhattan, KS	456
98	University of Memphis Memphis, TN	456
99	Michigan State University East Lansing, MI	453
100	New York University New York, NY	444