Accounting at Suffolk County Community College

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

Suffolk County Community College is located in Selden, New York and approximately 22,570 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.

Suffolk County Community College Accounting Degrees Available

• Undergrad Certificate in Accounting (1 - 4 Years)
• Associate’s Degree in Accounting

Online Classes Are Available at Suffolk County Community College

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Suffolk County Community College offers distance education options for accounting at the following degree levels:

Suffolk County Community College Accounting Rankings

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.

Accounting Student Demographics at Suffolk County Community College

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the accounting majors at Suffolk County Community College.

Suffolk County Community College Accounting Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 46% of accounting associate's degrees went to men and 54% went to women. The typical associate's degree program in accounting only graduates about 42% men each year. The program at Suffolk County Community College may seem more male-friendly since it graduates 4% more women than average.

Suffolk County Community College does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in accounting graduates 13% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Suffolk County Community College with a associate's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	8
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	33
White	42
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Related Majors

• Hospitality Management
• General Sales & Marketing
• 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 NY, the home state for Suffolk County Community College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Accountants and Auditors	110,780	$96,300
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	104,580	$45,590
Financial Analysts	53,250	$137,270
Financial Managers	42,460	$210,510
Financial Examiners	9,030	$115,980

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.