Accounting at Nichols College

What traits are you looking for in a accounting school? To help you decide if Nichols College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's accounting program.

Nichols is located in Dudley, Massachusetts and has a total student population of 1,518. Of the 337 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Nichols College in 2021, 38 of them were accounting majors.

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

Nichols Accounting Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at Nichols

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Nichols offers distance education options for accounting at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

Nichols Accounting Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The accounting major at Nichols 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 Value Accounting Master’s Degree Schools	2
Best Value Accounting Schools	2
Most Focused Accounting Master’s Degree Schools	16
Most Focused Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	30
Most Focused Accounting Schools	32
	151
Most Popular Accounting Master’s Degree Schools	203
	316
Most Popular Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	363
Best Accounting Master’s Degree Schools	384
	412
Most Popular Accounting Schools	420
Best Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	827
Best Value Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	954
Best Accounting Schools	1,073

In 2021, 25 students received their master’s degree in accounting from Nichols. This makes it the #204 most popular school for accounting master’s degree candidates in the country.

Earnings of Nichols Accounting Graduates

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at Nichols is $48,403. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 5% higher than the national average of $46,292 for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at Nichols

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

Nichols Accounting Bachelor’s Program

Of the 38 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Accounting from Nichols in 2020-2021, 58% were men and 42% were women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at Nichols since its program graduates 16% more men than average.

About 84% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at Nichols 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 Nichols College with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	32
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Nichols Accounting Master’s Program

Of the 25 students who graduated with a master’s in accounting from Nichols in 2021, 40% were men and 60% were women.

Of the students who received a accounting master's degree from Nichols, 88% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

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

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

Related Majors

• Business/Managerial Economics
• International Business
• Hospitality Management
• Human Resource Management
• 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 MA, the home state for Nichols College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	45,570	$47,020
Accountants and Auditors	35,360	$81,460
Financial Managers	33,880	$148,300
Financial Analysts	13,400	$105,540
Business Professors	4,050	$126,040

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.