Accounting at University of Houston - Downtown

If you are interested in studying accounting, you may want to check out the program at University of Houston - Downtown. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UH Downtown is located in Houston, Texas and approximately 15,239 students attend the school each year. Of the 2,897 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Houston - Downtown in 2021, 232 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.

UH Downtown Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

UH Downtown Accounting Rankings

The accounting major at UH Downtown 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.

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in accounting from UH Downtown. This is the #523 most popular school for accounting master’s degree candidates in the country.

How Much Do Accounting Graduates from UH Downtown Make?

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at UH Downtown is $43,661. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $46,292 for all accounting students.

Accounting Student Demographics at UH Downtown

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

UH Downtown Accounting Bachelor’s Program

The accounting program at UH Downtown awarded 232 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 29% of these degrees went to men with the other 71% going to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 43% 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 University of Houston - Downtown with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	54
Black or African American	24
Hispanic or Latino	100
White	29
International Students	17
Other Races/Ethnicities	8

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

Related Majors

• Insurance
• International Business
• Marketing
• Management Information Systems
• 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 TX, the home state for University of Houston - Downtown.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	131,250	$41,390
Accountants and Auditors	115,270	$80,200
Financial Managers	39,580	$149,990
Financial Analysts	26,850	$94,980
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks	13,300	$44,390

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 Nick22aku under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.