Accounting at University of South Carolina - Upstate

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

USC Upstate is located in Spartanburg, South Carolina and approximately 6,038 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.

USC Upstate Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

USC Upstate Accounting Rankings

The accounting major at USC Upstate 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 USC Upstate

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

USC Upstate 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 USC Upstate since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

About 57% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at USC Upstate are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% 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 South Carolina - Upstate with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	16
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Concentrations Within Accounting

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

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Accounting	22

Related Majors

• Management Information Systems
• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Marketing
• Business/Managerial Economics
• 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 SC, the home state for University of South Carolina - Upstate.

Occupation	Jobs in SC	Average Salary in SC
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	19,400	$36,860
Accountants and Auditors	14,890	$64,750
Financial Managers	5,190	$125,710
Financial Analysts	1,880	$80,690
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks	1,700	$41,370

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 Dfscgt21 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.