Accounting at Southeastern Louisiana University

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

Southeastern is located in Hammond, Louisiana and approximately 14,426 students attend the school each year.

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

Southeastern Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Southeastern Accounting Rankings

The accounting major at Southeastern 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 Southeastern

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

Southeastern Accounting Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 46% of accounting bachelor's degrees went to men and 54% went to women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at Southeastern since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

About 64% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at Southeastern 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 Southeastern Louisiana University with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	14
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	50
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Concentrations Within Accounting

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

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Accounting	89

Related Majors

• Finance & Financial Management
• Marketing
• 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 LA, the home state for Southeastern Louisiana University.

Occupation	Jobs in LA	Average Salary in LA
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	20,140	$37,180
Accountants and Auditors	10,390	$66,860
Financial Managers	5,280	$106,950
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks	2,460	$39,250
Tax Preparers	1,430	$39,590

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 Richard David Ramsey under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.