Accounting at Transylvania University

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

Transylvania is located in Lexington, Kentucky and approximately 963 students attend the school each year. Of the 240 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Transylvania University in 2021, 17 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.

Transylvania Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Transylvania Accounting Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the accounting progam at Transylvania 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 Transylvania 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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools	35
Most Focused Accounting Schools	126
Best Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	247
Best Accounting Schools	294
Most Popular Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	608
	666
Best Value Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	704
	949
Most Popular Accounting Schools	1,059
Best Value Accounting Schools	1,180

Earnings of Transylvania Accounting Graduates

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at Transylvania is $43,754. This is less than $46,292, which is the national average of all accounting majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Accounting Student Demographics at Transylvania

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

Transylvania Accounting Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 17 students earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Transylvania. About 35% of these graduates were women and the other 65% were men. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at Transylvania since its program graduates 23% more men than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	15
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• General Business/Commerce

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 KY, the home state for Transylvania University.

Occupation	Jobs in KY	Average Salary in KY
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	19,450	$37,950
Accountants and Auditors	11,160	$67,080
Financial Managers	6,190	$114,420
Financial Analysts	1,710	$69,830
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks	1,620	$41,290

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 TUPictures under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.