Accounting at McDaniel College

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

McDaniel is located in Westminster, Maryland and has a total student population of 2,931. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 35 students received a bachelor's degree in accounting from McDaniel.

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

McDaniel Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

McDaniel Accounting Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the accounting progam at McDaniel 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 McDaniel 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
	87
Best Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	110
Most Popular Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	391
Most Focused Accounting Schools	459
Best Value Accounting Schools	1,098

How Much Do Accounting Graduates from McDaniel Make?

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at McDaniel is $55,898. This is 21% higher than $46,292, which is the national average for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at McDaniel

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

McDaniel Accounting Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 35 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in accounting from McDaniel. About 86% were men and 14% were women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at McDaniel since its program graduates 44% more men than average.

About 63% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at McDaniel are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 1% more racial-ethnic minorities in its accounting bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	22
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• 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 MD, the home state for McDaniel College.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Accountants and Auditors	25,020	$82,610
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	21,490	$45,450
Financial Managers	12,550	$152,180
Financial Analysts	5,640	$92,800
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks	2,340	$51,610

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 Swissbeauty under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.