Accounting at Georgia Southwestern State University

If you plan to study accounting, take a look at what Georgia Southwestern State University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

GSW is located in Americus, Georgia and has a total student population of 3,162.

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

GSW Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

GSW Accounting Rankings

The accounting major at GSW 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.

Accounting Student Demographics at GSW

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the accounting majors at Georgia Southwestern State University.

GSW Accounting Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of accounting bachelor's degrees went to men and 67% went to women.

About 74% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at GSW 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 Georgia Southwestern State University with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	31
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Concentrations Within Accounting

Accounting majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Georgia Southwestern State University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Accounting	55

Related Majors

• Marketing
• Human Resource Management
• Business Administration & Management

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 GA, the home state for Georgia Southwestern State University.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Accountants and Auditors	37,200	$75,930
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	37,130	$40,330
Financial Managers	17,840	$145,920
Financial Analysts	7,400	$84,350
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks	3,850	$46,250

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 Ammodramus under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.