Accounting at Metropolitan State University

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

Metro State is located in Saint Paul, Minnesota and has a total student population of 7,552. In 2021, 95 accounting majors received their bachelor's degree from Metro State.

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

Metro State Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Metro State Accounting Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The accounting major at Metro State 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
Most Focused Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	142
Most Popular Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	142
Most Popular Accounting Schools	275
Best Accounting Schools	391

Earnings of Metro State Accounting Graduates

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at Metro State is $49,903. This is 8% higher than $46,292, which is the national average for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at Metro State

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

Metro State Accounting Bachelor’s Program

Of the 95 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Accounting from Metro State in 2020-2021, 49% were men and 51% were women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at Metro State since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 12% 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 Metropolitan State University with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	21
Black or African American	14
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	47
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

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

Related Majors

• Entrepreneurial Studies
• Management Information Systems
• International Business
• Marketing
• Finance & Financial 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 MN, the home state for Metropolitan State University.

Occupation	Jobs in MN	Average Salary in MN
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	31,110	$44,210
Accountants and Auditors	22,960	$72,480
Financial Managers	15,610	$133,970
Financial Analysts	6,320	$93,160
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks	2,550	$50,570

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 Tony Webster under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.