Accounting at Wofford College

What traits are you looking for in a accounting school? To help you decide if Wofford College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's accounting program.

Wofford is located in Spartanburg, South Carolina and has a total student population of 1,764. In 2021, 38 accounting majors received their bachelor's degree from Wofford.

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

Wofford Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting

Wofford Accounting Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks accounting programs across the country. The following shows how Wofford performed in these rankings.

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 Wofford 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 Schools	108
Best Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	200
Best Accounting Schools	246
Most Popular Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	363
	750
Best Value Accounting Bachelor’s Degree Schools	799
	1,055
Best Value Accounting Schools	1,275

Earnings of Wofford Accounting Graduates

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at Wofford is $39,901. 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 Wofford

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

Wofford Accounting Bachelor’s Program

Of the 38 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in accounting from Wofford in 2021, 47% were men and 53% were women. The typical accounting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at Wofford since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

About 92% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in accounting at Wofford 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 Wofford College with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	35
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• Business/Managerial Economics
• Finance & Financial 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 Wofford College.

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 PegasusRacer28 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.