Accounting at Manhattan University

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

Manhattan is located in Riverdale, New York and approximately 3,965 students attend the school each year.

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

Manhattan Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Manhattan Accounting Rankings

The accounting major at Manhattan 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 Manhattan

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

Manhattan Accounting Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 63% of accounting bachelor's degrees went to men and 38% went to women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at Manhattan since its program graduates 21% more men than average.

About 63% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at Manhattan 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 Manhattan University with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	15
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Concentrations Within Accounting

If you plan to be a accounting major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Manhattan University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Accounting	41

Related Majors

• Construction Management
• Marketing
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Finance & Financial 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 NY, the home state for Manhattan University.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Accountants and Auditors	110,780	$96,300
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	104,580	$45,590
Financial Analysts	53,250	$137,270
Financial Managers	42,460	$210,510
Financial Examiners	9,030	$115,980

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 Trollness under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.