Accounting at Muhlenberg College

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

Muhlenberg is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania and approximately 2,067 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 19 students received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Muhlenberg.

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

Muhlenberg Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Muhlenberg Accounting Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the accounting progam at Muhlenberg 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 Muhlenberg 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
Best Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	68
Most Popular Accounting Undergraduate Certificate Schools	404
Most Popular Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	566
Most Focused Accounting Schools	748

Earnings of Muhlenberg Accounting Graduates

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at Muhlenberg is $59,174. This is 28% higher than $46,292, which is the national average for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at Muhlenberg

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

Muhlenberg Accounting Bachelor’s Program

The accounting program at Muhlenberg awarded 19 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 63% of these degrees went to men with the other 37% going to women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at Muhlenberg since its program graduates 22% more men than average.

About 74% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at Muhlenberg 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 Muhlenberg College with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	14
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• 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 PA, the home state for Muhlenberg College.

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 Duempel at de.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.