Accounting at Santa Clara University

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

SCU is located in Santa Clara, California and has a total student population of 8,616. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 101 students received a bachelor's degree in accounting from SCU.

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

SCU Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

SCU Accounting Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the accounting progam at SCU 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 SCU 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
	1
Best Accounting Schools	9
Best Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	10
	12
Most Popular Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	132
Best Value Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	453
Best Value Accounting Schools	522

How Much Do Accounting Graduates from SCU Make?

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at SCU is $67,828. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 47% higher than the national average of $46,292 for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at SCU

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

SCU Accounting Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 101 accounting majors earned their bachelor's degree from SCU. Of these graduates, 44% were men and 56% were women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at SCU since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 22% 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 Santa Clara University with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	33
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	17
White	33
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	11

SCU 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
• Human Resource Management
• Management Information Systems
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Marketing

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 CA, the home state for Santa Clara University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	186,970	$47,750
Accountants and Auditors	148,600	$84,430
Financial Managers	81,350	$157,480
Financial Analysts	37,900	$109,640
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks	22,650	$51,520

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 Arnaudh under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.