Accounting

The School of Business offers students an engaging experience in accounting. All of our accounting professors hold master's degrees or above, are Certified Public Accountants (CPA), and have extensive professional experience in the field. Our 80-unit major curriculum prepares students for a number of applicable careers with a real-world focus on learning and the course experience.

Employment of accountants and auditors is projected to grow 10 percent from 2016 to 2026, faster than the average for all occupations. The median annual wage for accountants and auditors was $69,350 in May 2017. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $43,020, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $122,220.

In May 2017, the median annual wages for accountants and auditors in the top industries in which they worked were as follows:

1. Demonstrate understanding of key issues and the acquisition of key skills related to:

   • accounting
   • business ethics
   • finance
   • management
   • marketing
   • quantitative business tools
   • the economic environment of business
   • the international environment of business
   • the legal environment of business
   • the social environment of business

2. Integrate understandings of and skills related to functional business areas and relevant environmental contexts in the course of strategic business decision making.