Accounting at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

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

Ship is located in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 6,130.

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

Ship Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Ship Accounting Rankings

The accounting major at Ship 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 Ship

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

Ship Accounting Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 58% of accounting bachelor's degrees went to men and 42% went to women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at Ship since its program graduates 16% more men than average.

About 88% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at Ship 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 Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	23
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Concentrations Within Accounting

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

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Accounting	29

Related Majors

• Entrepreneurial Studies
• Human Resource Management
• Management Information Systems
• Finance & Financial Management
• 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 PA, the home state for Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	55,360	$40,660
Accountants and Auditors	51,720	$75,250
Financial Managers	17,730	$156,730
Financial Analysts	11,980	$93,870
Business Professors	5,490	$91,520

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 Cgboeree under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.