Accounting at Baruch College

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

Baruch is located in New York, New York and has a total student population of 19,740. Of the 3,166 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Baruch College in 2021, 660 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.

Baruch Accounting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• Master’s Degree in Accounting

Baruch Accounting Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks accounting programs across the country. The following shows how Baruch 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 Baruch 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
	5
	10
	20
	40
	174
	204
	632

In 2021, 191 students received their master’s degree in accounting from Baruch. This makes it the #10 most popular school for accounting master’s degree candidates in the country.

How Much Do Accounting Graduates from Baruch Make?

The median salary of accounting students who receive their bachelor's degree at Baruch is $46,908. This is 1% higher than $46,292, which is the national average for all accounting bachelor's degree recipients.

Accounting Student Demographics at Baruch

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

Baruch Accounting Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 660 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in accounting from Baruch. About 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 Baruch since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 30% 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 Baruch College with a bachelor's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	312
Black or African American	26
Hispanic or Latino	93
White	94
International Students	128
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

Baruch Accounting Master’s Program

Of the 191 accounting students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from Baruch, about 43% were men and 57% were women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 42% men graduate in accounting each year. Baruch does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 2% more men than average.

In the accounting master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 52% of degree recipients. That is 16% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Baruch College with a master's in accounting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	82
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	54
International Students	37
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Concentrations Within Accounting

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

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Accounting	851

Related Majors

• Human Resource Management
• Real Estate
• International Business
• Business/Managerial Economics
• Entrepreneurial Studies

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 NY, the home state for Baruch College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Accountants and Auditors	110,780	$96,300
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks	104,580	$45,590
Financial Analysts	53,250	$137,270
Financial Managers	42,460	$210,510
Financial Examiners	9,030	$115,980

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 Beyond My Ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.