Accounting at University of Washington - Tacoma Campus

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

UW Tacoma is located in Tacoma, Washington and approximately 5,364 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 96 accounting majors received their bachelor's degree from UW Tacoma.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Accounting section at the bottom of this page.

UW Tacoma Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

UW Tacoma Accounting Rankings

The accounting major at UW Tacoma 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.

Earnings of UW Tacoma Accounting Graduates

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at UW Tacoma is $52,825. This is 14% higher than $46,292, which is the national average for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at UW Tacoma

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

UW Tacoma Accounting Bachelor’s Program

Of the 96 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in accounting from UW Tacoma in 2021, 43% were men and 57% were women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at UW Tacoma since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 20% 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 Washington - Tacoma Campus with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	27
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	13
White	34
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	12

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

Related Majors

• Management Sciences & Quantitative Methods
• Marketing
• Finance & Financial Management
• 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 WA, the home state for University of Washington - Tacoma Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in WA	Average Salary in WA
Accountants and Auditors	32,870	$78,970
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	31,970	$45,600
Financial Managers	13,010	$136,480
Financial Analysts	6,480	$87,590
Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks	3,070	$50,860

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.