Accounting at Portland State University

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

Portland State University is located in Portland, Oregon and has a total student population of 23,640. Of the 5,211 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Portland State University in 2021, 205 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.

Portland State University Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Portland State University Accounting Rankings

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

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 Portland State University 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 Schools	669

Earnings of Portland State University Accounting Graduates

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at Portland State University is $47,209. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 2% higher than the national average of $46,292 for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at Portland State University

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

Portland State University Accounting Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 205 students earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Portland State University. About 48% of these graduates were women and the other 52% were men. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at Portland State University since its program graduates 11% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% 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 Portland State University with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	37
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	26
White	94
International Students	20
Other Races/Ethnicities	25

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

Related Majors

• Business/Corporate Communications
• Specialized Sales, Merchandising & Marketing
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Entrepreneurial Studies
• International Business

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 OR, the home state for Portland State University.

Occupation	Jobs in OR	Average Salary in OR
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	23,960	$41,840
Accountants and Auditors	11,890	$71,450
Financial Managers	7,830	$118,680
Financial Analysts	2,390	$92,640
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks	2,060	$46,620

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 Visitor7 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.