Accounting at College of the Holy Cross

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

Holy Cross is located in Worcester, Massachusetts and has a total student population of 2,970. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 24 students received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Holy Cross.

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

Holy Cross Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Holy Cross Accounting Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the accounting progam at Holy Cross compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The accounting major at Holy Cross 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Accounting Schools	12
	13
Most Focused Accounting Schools	800

Earnings of Holy Cross Accounting Graduates

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at Holy Cross is $67,670. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 46% higher than the national average of $46,292 for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at Holy Cross

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the accounting majors at College of the Holy Cross.

Holy Cross Accounting Bachelor’s Program

Of the 24 accounting students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Holy Cross, about 54% were men and 46% were women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at Holy Cross since its program graduates 13% more men than average.

About 83% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at Holy Cross 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 College of the Holy Cross with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	20
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

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 MA, the home state for College of the Holy Cross.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	45,570	$47,020
Accountants and Auditors	35,360	$81,460
Financial Managers	33,880	$148,300
Financial Analysts	13,400	$105,540
Business Professors	4,050	$126,040

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 George Rypysc III under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.