Accounting at Oglethorpe University

If you are interested in studying accounting, you may want to check out the program at Oglethorpe University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Oglethorpe is located in Atlanta, Georgia and has a total student population of 1,452.

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

Oglethorpe Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Oglethorpe Accounting Rankings

The accounting major at Oglethorpe 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.

Accounting Student Demographics at Oglethorpe

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

Oglethorpe Accounting Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 55% of accounting bachelor's degrees went to men and 45% went to women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at Oglethorpe since its program graduates 13% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 26% 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 Oglethorpe University with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	3
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Concentrations Within Accounting

The following accounting concentations are available at Oglethorpe University. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Oglethorpe University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Accounting	9

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 GA, the home state for Oglethorpe University.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Accountants and Auditors	37,200	$75,930
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	37,130	$40,330
Financial Managers	17,840	$145,920
Financial Analysts	7,400	$84,350
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks	3,850	$46,250

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 Boston Public Library under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.