Accounting at University of Southern California

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

USC is located in Los Angeles, California and approximately 46,287 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 175 accounting majors received their bachelor's degree from USC.

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 Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

USC Accounting Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the accounting progam at USC compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The accounting major at USC 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
	15

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

How Much Do Accounting Graduates from USC Make?

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at USC is $64,797. This is 40% higher than $46,292, which is the national average for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at USC

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

USC Accounting Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 53% of accounting bachelor's degrees went to men and 47% 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 since its program graduates 11% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 22% 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 Southern California with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	68
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	27
White	47
International Students	25
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

USC 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
• Other Business, Management & Marketing
• Construction Management
• Finance & Financial Management
• Taxation

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 CA, the home state for University of Southern California.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	186,970	$47,750
Accountants and Auditors	148,600	$84,430
Financial Managers	81,350	$157,480
Financial Analysts	37,900	$109,640
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks	22,650	$51,520

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 Original uploader was Padsquad19 at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.