Accounting at Lehigh University

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

Lehigh is located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 7,067.

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

Lehigh Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• Master’s Degree in Accounting

Lehigh Accounting Rankings

The accounting major at Lehigh 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 Lehigh

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

Lehigh Accounting Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 49% of accounting bachelor's degrees went to men and 51% went to women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at Lehigh since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

About 72% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at Lehigh 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 Lehigh University with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	38
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Lehigh Accounting Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 100% of accounting master's degrees went to men and 0% went to women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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 Lehigh University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Accounting	76

Related Majors

• Entrepreneurial Studies
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Business Administration & Management
• General Business/Commerce
• Business/Managerial Economics

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 PA, the home state for Lehigh University.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	55,360	$40,660
Accountants and Auditors	51,720	$75,250
Financial Managers	17,730	$156,730
Financial Analysts	11,980	$93,870
Business Professors	5,490	$91,520

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 IR393DEME under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.