Accounting at Central Michigan University

If you are interested in studying accounting, you may want to check out the program at Central Michigan University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Central Michigan is located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan and has a total student population of 17,311. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 82 students received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Central Michigan.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Accounting section at the bottom of this page.

Central Michigan Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Central Michigan Accounting Rankings

The accounting major at Central Michigan is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Accounting. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Earnings of Central Michigan Accounting Graduates

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at Central Michigan is $54,198. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 17% higher than the national average of $46,292 for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at Central Michigan

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the accounting majors at Central Michigan University.

Central Michigan Accounting Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 82 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in accounting from Central Michigan. About 62% were men and 38% were women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at Central Michigan since its program graduates 21% more men than average.

About 83% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at Central Michigan are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Central Michigan University with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	68
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Central Michigan also has a doctoral program available in accounting. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Real Estate
• International Business
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Business/Corporate Communications
• Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing

Careers That Accounting Grads May Go Into

A degree in accounting can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MI, the home state for Central Michigan University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	37,490	$39,130
Accountants and Auditors	33,610	$74,370
Financial Managers	14,760	$128,270
Financial Analysts	6,090	$84,410
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks	3,690	$44,030

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By cjh1452000 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.