Accounting at North Carolina State University

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

NC State is located in Raleigh, North Carolina and approximately 36,042 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 157 accounting majors received their bachelor's degree from NC 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.

NC State Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

NC State Accounting Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks accounting programs across the country. The following shows how NC State performed in these rankings.

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 NC 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 Graduate Certificate Schools	91
Most Focused Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	770

How Much Do Accounting Graduates from NC State Make?

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at NC State is $46,979. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 1% higher than the national average of $46,292 for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at NC State

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

NC State Accounting Bachelor’s Program

The accounting program at NC State awarded 157 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 56% of these degrees went to men with the other 44% going to women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at NC State since its program graduates 14% more men than average.

About 69% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at NC State 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 North Carolina State University with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	13
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	109
International Students	9
Other Races/Ethnicities	8

NC State 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
• Finance & Financial Management
• Marketing
• Business/Managerial Economics
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods

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 NC, the home state for North Carolina State University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	46,570	$39,590
Accountants and Auditors	33,020	$76,880
Financial Managers	15,730	$149,710
Financial Analysts	8,930	$89,020
Financial Examiners	4,070	$71,310

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 Haruhide000 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.